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Please stop using names for version releases. Is "awesome igloo" newer than "super turtle" or "raring rino"?

Just stop. Use boring versioning numbers. Your developers and users will thank you.

They're alphabetical, lol. Plus cool shirts.

The software is versioned with numbers,the codenames are for releases which could have version number ranges, or help differentiate stable from testing, etc. The developers and users can better make the distinctions with codenames.

Decimals do that job with less characters.

Tell that to Android

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