@shadowfacts @michcia @darius Given that other forks are doing things even more differently, is this a "the horse has already left the barn so why close the barn doors" kind of situation?

If a client wants to be branch-compatible, I guess they have to be better about parsing the version string. But it means that the branches may not work with some plugins/clients, even though they could.

Darius - I appreciate that you thought about the convention here!