An internal version number representation is required so that the programs that use the index can identify whether or not they are compatible with the Tesserae index they are attempting to read/use (possibly created by a different version of Tesserae).
An internal version number representation is required so that the programs that use the index can identify whether or not they are compatible with the Tesserae index they are attempting to read/use (possibly created by a different version of Tesserae).