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Just a sidenote, but why do some software projects consider 0.11 higher than 0.7? I remember when jQuery did this it broke tons of plugins that used a simple numerical comparison to see if the version was high enough (which seems sensible enough to me).

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0.11 is higher than 0.7 because version numbers aren't decimal numbers. The 0 is the "major" version number and the 11 or 7 is the "minor" version number. Many projects follow the Semantic Versioning convention.

http://semver.org/

Because 11 is higher than 7. It's not version 0.1.1 or version "dot one one", it's version "dot eleven". Eleven is a bigger number than seven is.

it's true, 11 > 7 but 0.11 < 0.7

Version numbers are not always decimal numbers.

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