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What are you going to do when it is August 11th 2121? Reuse the build number?
by tssva 5y ago
What are you going to do when it is August 11th 2121? Reuse the build number?
- dmos62 5y agoAdd a 1. in front. It earned it.
- ziml77 5y agoIf the project actually does last that long, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to just extended the version by 2 digits to include the full year.
- tssva 5y agoIs it a Mozilla project because that is some Mozilla type version inflation?
- williamdclt 5y agoYou mean that you're _sure_ that nothing will be dependent on the format of the version string of a >100yo project? I'd bet everything I own against that
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- ruined 5y agonot a problem. it's physically impossible for any software to be maintained that long. you can't prove me wrong
- tssva 5y agoSure I can. It will just take some time to do so.
- thih9 5y agoInstruct the AI to move the project to a versioning system that supports full calendar year.
- Jiocus 5y agoThis is a solved problem. [Y2K Programming solutions]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Programming_solutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Programming_...