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List:       kde-doc-english
Subject:    Re: [kde-doc-english]Re: version numbers
From:       Pam R <pam.roberts () btinternet ! com>
Date:       2001-02-28 8:43:47
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On Monday 26 February 2001 16:43, Frederik Fouvry wrote:
> | I just noticed the new version numbers:
> | in the documentation it's 1.02.00, in KMail it's 1.2.
> |
> | I think this is very confusing, it looks like the doc isn't up-to-date.
> |
> | I guess it was introduced for a good reason, so the question is: can we
> | undo this when the HTML is generated?
> |
> | Of course we could also change KMail's version number to 1.02.00, but
> | that wouldn't be a common version number.
>
> http://i18n.kde.org/doc/markup.html: it's a markup requirement.
> Because it's not "just" info, but is used to compute synchronisation
> of translations and documentation, it had to be laid down in a rule.
> This form was chosen to make it easier to find the version by pattern
> matching.
>
<flamesuit  status="on">
IMHO I thought that having to enter and read data in an unnatural and 
possibly confusing way just because 'the computer must have it that way' was 
abandoned in the 1980's.
</flamesuit>
[snip]
Pam

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