[Development] Adding support for version number comparisons
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sat May 10 19:57:07 CEST 2014
Em sáb 10 maio 2014, às 14:26:44, Sune Vuorela escreveu:
> On 2014-05-09, Keith Gardner <kreios4004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2. What semantics should be used for version comparisons? Numerical
> > segments are more clearly defined but when introducing a non-null
> > suffix,
> > many different methods are being proposed.
> >
> > 3. Are there any other versioning semantics that should be
> > supported?
>
> Please look at the version comparison rules that for example dpkg uses.
> Especially tilde. [1]
>
> And special strings (alpha, rc, ..) should not be treated special.
How do you make 5.3.0-rc1 compare less than 5.3.0?
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