> version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific That's your opinion. It seems there's a lot of people in the software industry with a differ

> version numbers aren't a product name, they should be scientific That's your opinion. It seems there's a lot of people in the software industry with a different opinion. I'm not saying it isn't a good thing when version numbers are meaningful. But that's not always the case and even when it's the case, you'd better check what it means for a particular project. There's no generic "scientific" rule about version numbers.