On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:57:07AM -0600, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote:
> Modified files:
> usr.bin/pkg-config: pkg-config
>
> Log message:
> First steps of teaching pkg-config about 'alpha' and 'beta' versions.
> The order is 'alpha' < 'beta' < ' ' , and the common shorts 'a' and 'b'
> are also accepted.
> It may have some rought edges, but they will be dealt with later.
What's the plan with pkg-config? The freedesktop version has a very
weird version comparision algorithm which doesn't recognize any special
strings like `alpha', 'beta', rc[[:digit:]]* etc.
While a more correct (and documented) version comparision would be
nice, it won't protect us from strange version numbers used in upstream
projects.
One example: if i understand the code from the freedesktop pkg-config,
the following two version numbers would compqre equal:
1.2.3.alpha
1:2/3alpha
Ciao,
Kili
