Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 16, 2022 15:57 UTC (Wed) by ldearquer (guest, #137451)
Parent article: Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

I had to check it is not April Fools' Day

I know I am being super pedantic, but from a systems engineer perspective, I still get astonished of how low the quality bar is (sometimes) on the web landscape.

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 7:58 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

That is mostly because they never require strict adherence to any standards but attempt to work around peers which don't. That tends to lead to an absolute mess in the long-term.

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 9:04 UTC (Thu) by shiftee (subscriber, #110711) [Link] (1 responses)

Didn't Linux add an option to keep reporting itself as version 2.x after the eventual change to version 3?

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 12:17 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Yes - the UNAME26 personality flag. On my Fedora 34 laptop, I can switch with either setarch or uname26:


$ uname -r
5.16.7-100.fc34.x86_64

$ setarch --uname-2.6 uname -r
2.6.76-100.fc34.x86_64

$ uname26 uname -r
2.6.76-100.fc34.x86_64

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 9:38 UTC (Thu) by Thomas (subscriber, #39963) [Link]

Thank you for this very sane assessment.

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 10:51 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

I was perplexed, too. How could simple numeral comparison work for 99 and do not work for 100? There aren't even any dots to consider. It is unimaginable to me.

Oh boy, how limited is my imagination:
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=label%3Ave...

Mozilla on the coming version-100 apocalypse

Posted Feb 17, 2022 11:23 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]


"100" < "99"

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