Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Here's a new version of the Policy patch for ~ in version numbers that >> hopefully incorporates all of the suggestions. > You will hate me for this one :-) Oh, it's fine. We haven't worked out how best to pull my stuff into the central arch repository yet anyway (mostly because I haven't asked), so none of it is pulled up yet. >> @@ -2713,7 +2713,15 @@ >> which may be empty) are compared lexically. If a difference >> is found it is returned. The lexical comparison is a >> comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters >> - sort earlier than all the non-letters. >> + sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde >> + sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example, >> + the following parts are in sorted order: <tt>~~</tt>, >> + <tt>~~a</tt>, <tt>~</tt>, the empty part, > So, is the greatest version number at the beginning or at the end of > that sorted list? Yes, this is clear from context, but IMO an example > should be more explicit. How about if I make that "in sorted order from earliest to latest"? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
