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The line before the one you quoted gives their explanation: "We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it
by eesmith 4y ago
The line before the one you quoted gives their explanation: "We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly on curl’s 25th birthday made it extra fun."
- nusaru 4y agoI read that too, but I feel like a project as widely used as curl should be more “conservative” in their version increments.
- groestl 4y agoThey really are: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/
- bawolff 4y agoWell linux incremented from 2 to 3 mostly because they felt like it, so they are in good company.
- justeleblanc 4y agoWhy? It's just a number.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoWell, Windows jumped from 4.0 to 2000
- DmitryOlshansky 4y agoInternally Windows 2000 was WinNT 5.0. The marketing name doesn’t have to reflect software versions.