Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:57:24 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: Ports with version numbers going backwards: devel/ode Message-ID: <40E120E4.60201@ciam.ru> In-Reply-To: <40E05CBE.40507@mac.com> References: <5BD6716A-C917-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <40E05CBE.40507@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Consider perl-5.006 versus perl-5.6. Should they be equal, or should It's consequence of old perl's crazy version scheme. > Sergy is saying .006 < .6, or ought to be, rather than equal. Basicly, > use the presence of a leading zero to indicate the version # should be > considered via a decimal math comparision, rather than "version # as > integer counter". I thought so first. But now I see we can't do a decimal math comparision because of ending zeros significance. Example: .006 < .0060 < .06 < .6 < .60 If there is a zero in version number, we can't drop it. Neither leading one nor ending one. -- Sem.
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