[gmx-developers] Plans for GROMACS 2016 release

[Åke Sandgren]

If nothing else it makes it less prone to strange interpretations.
yyyymmdd is easy to interpret, yymmdd can be interpreted as mmddyy and 
in other strange ways.

It's still just a version number but...

On 02/04/2016 02:22 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know my input on versionining was late (and I guess effectively
> invalid), but I'd still like to suggest reconsidering whether that
> "20" prefix is really needed; 16 carries the same information that
> IIRC the date-based versioning proponents wanted. Or is overflowing in
> 2099 is a concern? :)


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