<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I think 2016 makes clear it's a date. We are releasing because it's 2016 and we've done some useful things that people should want :-) I think GROMACS 2016 clearly captures that.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm fairly sure nobody thinks Windows 10 was released in 2010. I don't know whether Amber14 is the 14th release or the one from 2014 - historically it was just a version number.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:29 PM Åke Sandgren <<a href="mailto:ake.sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se">ake.sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If nothing else it makes it less prone to strange interpretations.<br>
yyyymmdd is easy to interpret, yymmdd can be interpreted as mmddyy and<br>
in other strange ways.<br>
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It's still just a version number but...<br>
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On 02/04/2016 02:22 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I know my input on versionining was late (and I guess effectively<br>
> invalid), but I'd still like to suggest reconsidering whether that<br>
> "20" prefix is really needed; 16 carries the same information that<br>
> IIRC the date-based versioning proponents wanted. Or is overflowing in<br>
> 2099 is a concern? :)<br>
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