[vorbis] version number

[Michael Smith]

At 10:36 AM 7/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
>If I remember correctly, the character '0' is not a number. If was added
>*after* numbers were created as a place holder indicating "no number belongs
>here." Anyway, if you call a release version 1.0, then the API should return
>1.0 during a version query, reguardless of the origin of '0'. In fact, I'd
>ask that version info be returned as a text string *only*. That way you
>could have represented "1.0 rc3" in the version query. This applies to
>future releases, as well. How will an application know whether a new set of
>DLLs are version "1.0" or version "1.0 beta 1" or "1.0 rc1"?? There is no
>way...

This '0' is not the library version number, it's the vorbis stream revision
number. It can only be changed if the actual format changed (incompatibly),
which isn't going to happen.

Michael

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