Devin Carraway wrote: > This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at > work, but which wasn't in Debian. > > Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) > 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. > > Packages may be had from http://devin.com/debian/. > > Package: libsort-versions-perl > Architecture: all > Depends: ${perl:Depends} > Description: A perl5 module for comparison of revision numbers > This module allows easy sorting (via comparisons) of > mixed text and numeric strings, such as the complex > "version numbers" that many revision control systems, > package managers and shared library systems use.
Well we have libapt-pkg-perl which has a version comparison routine. use AptPkg::Config '$_config'; use AptPkg::System '$_system'; use AptPkg::Version; $_config->init; $_system = $_config->system; my $vs = $_system->versioning; $vs->compare($ver1, $ver2); Granted it's not small or simple since it uses libapt though. -- see shy jo
