Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > Those that do specify are *much* more obvious and simple in their > comparison of individual components than what is currently in the > ‘distutilsversion’ specification. Usually it's a simple case of “once > we've got the individual components of a version string, they compare > alphanumerically”. […]
> I'm arguing that, having got those components, and needing to compare > them *within an individual component position* for ordering, the best > candidate for “simple to describe and remember, and obvious to guess” > is that the components are compared alphanumerically with no special > exceptions. As pointed out, I'm oversimplifying: the consensus I've seen includes the semantic that sequences of digits in any component are to be treated as integers and compared accordingly. I think that should be part of the specification (and it was so obvious in my mind that I forgot to express it :-) -- \ “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is | `\ obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.” —Mark Twain, | _o__) _Following the Equator_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
