Okay, it seems that we misunderstand each other :-)) Could you please explain to me what you mean by "... by some means which does not break the rule that shorter version numbers are smaller"? I can't understand this.
It seems to me that there's something you don't like in this ~ stuff, but I can't see what it is... I do like it anyway :-)) <utopia> IMHO in an ideal world this tilde-stuff would be widely accepted by developers, implemented in glibc's strverscmp(), used by rpm, used by all distros and all software developers to denote pre-versions... If glibc and rpm developers accept this feature, it would only take a few years until world domination :-) </utopia> cheers, Egmont
