It's confusing because in 99% of all cases, in the general software world, versioning is done using decimal.
I disagree. Most of the software world uses version . revision [. build or and maybe even 4th element]. Even Microsoft does that (they may have used 1.04 or something as silly for Windows 1).
And when you use a decimal point, you're certainly implying that.
Nope, it's a common practice to separate the version components with a dot.
It's not confusing for you because you're familiar with the software. But, what if one piece of software uses decimal and the other does not? How does the user know which is which if both are presented in the same format and both use a decimal point?
There's no way to know. Decimal number is far less flexible and more confusing way to do it however, and thus it is used less and less.
If I'm a new user installing MorphOS and trying to download a piece of software and I see version 1.14 and version 1.9 I'm instinctively going to download 1.9.
Understandable mistake if you don't know that the version number isn't a decimal number in AmigaOS and MorphOS world.
I understand what you're saying, I'm just pointing out that it's confusing to the user. You can't use a decimal point and say it's not a decimal number and expect a typical user to just know that.
I'm under the impression that most if not all MorphOS users have prior experience with amigaos, and such understand that version numbers are not decimal numbers.
From a general perspective if it's version 1 revision 14, it should be labeled v1r14 not 1.14.
That'd be just even more confusing I'd say. My experience is that software using decimal versioning is nowadays quite rare. It does exists for sure, but is far less common than before.
