On Sunday, May 11, 2014 13:42:25 Keith Gardner wrote: > Other comparison rules: > > 1. Numerical groupings should be compared integers instead of characters > in order to properly allow for "alpha2" < "alpha11". > 2. Delimiters should only be used to denote groups of content but be > skipped during the compare. "alpha" == "-alpha" == "~alpha" == ".alpha" > 1. Can be restricted to the first character if this is too broad.
Given that we're numbering things, your last point would probably be better- numbered 3 instead of 1 again, right? Note also that version number schemes for particular software are not constant over time. https://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2009/09/03/qt-4th-edition-feature-pack-7/ Are Windows versions in scope? I changed grantlee versions to drop a 'v' at some point. http://www.grantlee.org/downloads/ I'm sure there are other examples in the past and in the future. I didn't read closely enough to see if that affects your proposal at all. My bikeshed color is that a version comparator should only do 'component-wise numeric comparison' and shouldn't also try to handle prefixes and suffixes etc. I'm just adding that because I don't really support any side of this discussion beyond bikeshedding. Thanks, -- Join us at Qt Developer Days 2014 in Berlin! - https://devdays.kdab.com Stephen Kelly <stephen.ke...@kdab.com> | Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company www.kdab.com || Germany +49-30-521325470 || Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-Independent Software Solutions _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
