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The outfit for which I'm contracting has thrown me a notation I was not
familiar with, so I thought I'd tap your collective wisdom.
Given that a software product is issued as version 1.0 (which some
companies just call version 1), then goes through some incremental
releases (1.1, 1.2, ...) before a major change causes the Powers That Be
to christen a new version 2.0, how does (should) the documentation refer
to the generation of incremental releases prior to 2.0?
Would you recognize "Foo 1.x" as meaning "Foo 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ..."?
If not, how do you represent that concept concisely in your doc?
And would you use a different shorthand INTERNALLY from what you use in
the doc?
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