Re: Version comparisons
[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Sun, 2 Nov 2003 13:09:59 +0200
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> Right now, we're lacking a standard and a clear definition of how > versions should be compared, written down and specified. Without even going to evil things like mixed numeric-alphabetic versions we have the two incompatible systems, both widely used: (1) versions-are-floating-point (2) versions-are-(lists-of-)integers Without knowing which one the author is using, we can't know what comes after 1.9, or whether 1.1 is the same as 1.10. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen