[Development] Adding support for version number comparisons

[Olivier Goffart]

On Monday 02 June 2014 13:24:55 Richard Moore wrote:
> On 2 June 2014 13:12, Keith Gardner <kreios4004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Simon Hausmann <simon.hausmann at digia.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> I suggest a name that is more centric towards the _function_ of the
> >> class,
> >> comparison of different software versions.
> > 
> > QVersionInformation was also proposed as a name in the code review.  I
> > don't have a problem with changing the name other than it is really long
> > for a simple class.
> 
> How about QVersionComparator?

How about qVersionCompare(const QString&, const QString&)? 
Yes, that's a function. Is there really the need for a class to hold just a 
version string?

And there could be an overload with a SuffixComparator.

(or is qCompareVersion an even better name?)
-- 
Olivier 

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