Martin Oldfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rather than treating the ~ as introducing a special case which always > compares lower than something else, does it help to make numbers to > the right of the ~ add fractions to the integer part ? Since the > version number is now a rational number you can have arbitrary numbers > of releases before hitting 8. A possible sequence in the case that's > been discussed might be > > 2.0.7 < 2.0.7~1 < 2.0.7~2 < 2.0.7~21 < 2.0.8
The problem here is that it's hard for the user to figure out that 2.0.7~1 is actually equivalent to the upstream 2.0.8pre1, whereas 2.0.8~pre1 makes it pretty clear. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
