> >>> The issue is extremely nontrivial.
> >>
> >> The normal case is to sort full releases. The goal in "sort -V" was to
> >> make
> >> the usual case easy, not to make the authoritative solution for an
> >> intractable
> >> problem. [...] In my little world, it would be quite convenient.
> >
> > This is an excellent argument for a utility to perform version comparisons.
> > Such a program could be arbitrarily complex. This feature is too new to
> > know how it will evolve.
>
> /usr/bin/test ?
>
> Do this first in the binary then migrate to bash's test?
I was actually making an argument for an entirely separate utility to do
this. That could be a shell script encapsulating the proper version
comparison logic.
Chet
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