On Tuesday 14 October 2008 15:27:54 Eric Blake wrote: > On the other hand, autoconf's m4_version_compare (which is what automake > uses to determine if you are using a new enough version, when you request > 1.10a), treats 1.10a > 1.10.1. In other words, 1.10a is the alpha in > preparation for 1.11, while 1.10.1 is the .1 patch release in the older > 1.10 series. Maybe this is a bug in filevercmp? Maybe. Feel free to write a patch - I can run some regression tests on it.
Currently the char "a" is not considered as "alpha" in filevercmp, but as a letter "a" - there is no higher abstraction then individual chars. The goal of filevercmp was to be independent on any particular version system. Kamil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
