Geoff, I've pored over that page a number of times. And to me, it is not at all 
obvious that latest-revision will do what I want it to do:
1. While "dev" is assigned "-1", will that also be applied to "DEV" 
(case-insensitive) and "-DEV" with a hyphen prefix?
2. Where does it say anything about how to negotiate between "-DEV" and 
"-DEV-timestamp"?

I'm afraid that eventually I will just need to write an integration test and 
ascertain this for myself--which is a shame because having to do so presents a 
barrier to entry. 

> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:28:43 +1300
> Subject: Re: latest strategy question
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> 
> Look like it should just work (to me)
> 
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html
> 
> <http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html>
> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Max Reider <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I want to have a latest strategy that sorts versions as follows from latest
> > to earliest:
> > 1. 2.0
> > 2. 2.0-DEV
> > 3. 2.0-DEV-20101031101932 (later timestamp)
> > 4. 2.0-DEV-20100920120000 (earlier timestamp)
> >
> > Will this work out of the box, or will I need to define a custom latest
> > strategy to make this work, or will I need to tweak the built-in
> > latest-revision in some way? And if someone can point me to some passage in
> > the documentation that would have obviated my question had I been aware of
> > it, that would be great.
                                          

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