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alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> writes:

> why not simply cheat & call it V 0.2.3 :-) it is not as if there is
> any regulation concerning what can & cannot constitute a minor release
> it is all at your own discretion.

Not a regulation, but a convention which it is good etiquette to follow
<URL:http://semver.org/>. Version strings are a communication, and
communication is only useful if conventions of meaning are more or less
reliable.

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