On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 17:15 , Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > (Pessamistic version control), and that is the flow of the text
> > suggests that a couple of examples would fit nicely at the end:
> >
> > "~> 2.7.1.8" => ">= 2.7.1.8", "< 2.7.2"
> > "~> 2.7.1" => ">= 2.7.1", "< 2.8"
>
> I just modified the last paragraph to read:
>
> Notice that we only include 2 digits of the version. The operator will drop
> the final digit of a version, then increment the remaining final digit to get
> the upper limit version number. Therefore ?~> 2.2? is equivalent to: [?>=
> 2.2?, ?< 3.0?]. Had we said ?~> 2.2.0?, it would have been equivalent to:
> [?>= 2.2.0?, ?< 2.3.0?]. The last digit specifies the level of granularity of
> version control. (Remember, you can alway supply an explicit upper limit if
> the pessimistic operator is too limited for you).
>
> Edits welcome.
Thank you, that's even better.
Hugh
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