Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:25:16 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> Cc: FreeBSD ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ports with version numbers going backwards: devel/ode Message-ID: <5BD6716A-C917-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <40E02CCE.6020001@ciam.ru>
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Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > I meant we can treat leading zeros as decreasing factor. > So, x.001 < x.002 < x.01 < x.02 < x.1 < x.2 < x.10 < x.20 > In other words - zeros never can dropped except there are only zeros in > the number i.e. X = X.0 = X.00 = X.000 etc. > > We can look on a version number part with leading zeros as on a number > with an implicit dot: 001 -> 0.01, 02 -> 0.2 etc. So comparing will not > be a problem. As far as I understand your proposal this will give us 0.005 < 0.05 < 0.039 < 0.050 < 0.5 < 0.39 < 0.50 < 0.390 < 0.500 while the current order is 0.005 = 0.05 = 0.5 < 0.039 = 0.39 < 0.050 = 0.50 < 0.390 < 0.500 so you have `interesting' sequences like `0.05 < 0.039 < 0.5 < 0.39'. This is what you intended, but it looks strange to me. -Oliver
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