An impassioned plea on version numbers

[Nicolai Parlog]

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Which I find truly funny, because when the year.month scheme was
proposed, 9.0 was still in the future.



On 28.09.2017 10:17, Sven Reimers wrote:
> This format already changed for 9.
> 
> Sven
> 
> Am 28.09.2017 08:43 schrieb "Peter Lawrey"
> <peter.lawrey at gmail.com>:
> 
>> I am assuming a minimum of changes to the format of the current
>> internal Java version
>> 
>> $ java -version java version "1.8.0_144" Java(TM) SE Runtime
>> Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server
>> VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode)
>> 
>> With a recent version of Java 8 update 144, being 1.8.0_144
>> internally. ᐧ
>> 
>> On 27 September 2017 at 19:12, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 27/09/17 16:31, Peter Lawrey wrote:
>>>> It's worth noting the version is likely to be
>>>> 
>>>> 1.10.0_1 1.11.0_1
>>>> 
>>>> or
>>>> 
>>>> 1.18.3_1 1.18.9_1 1.19.3_1
>>> 
>>> Why do you say that?
>>> 
>>> -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd.
>>> <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD
>>> 6035 332F A671
>>> 
>> 
> 

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