dnl for testing a numberical version number comes handy
dnl the released version are
dnl a.bccc
dnl the devl versions will be something like
dnl a.b999yymmddhh
dnl for testing a numberical version number comes handy
dnl the released version are
dnl a.bccc
dnl the devl versions will be something like
dnl a.b999yymmddhh