On Mar 9, 2006, at 08:14, Florian Hars wrote:

> This reminds me of an episode on another mailing list some years  
> ago, where
> someone complained: "The documentation for package A says that it  
> requires at
> least version 1.13 of package B, I used version 1.9 of Package B,  
> and it still
> doesn't work."

OCaml version numbers won't have this problem until version 10,  
which, at the
current release rate, shouldn't happen before the year 2048.

At that time I will push for using letters for major relase numbers,  
in order
to get another 300 years of nicely-comparable version numbers.

-- Damien