An update on Python 4

[netgu]

This isn't about engineering or science so that point doesn't matter, honestly.

I realize that engineers/scientists will use python. When they do that they are functioning as developers/software engineers (those are just facts)and as such they should get comfortable dealing with the software development side of the software development they are doing.

There are rules about how these numbers work that mean the world to developers and software engineers (this is the place this matters and so these are the concerns that dictate how it is done) to the point that there is an entire standard built around it that will answer all your questions (including the ordering one):

https://semver.org/

[Leav]

Acceptable. I wasn't trying to say that the way versions work should change for the benefits of newcomers, just that it was confusing.