I thought the leading number was for when very large changes are made to the core software that make it unrecognizable from a previous version. Like if you changed the render engine or the user interface, or all of the network code.
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Version 2.0? You mean an entirely new program, right?
slight disagree: proud version is actually when you become so disillusioned with your old code that you throw it all out and start again
oh yeah