URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/254 Title: #254: Replace LooseVersion with parse_ipa_version()
tiran commented: """ > I was thinking about this a bit, and was wondering whether the > platform-specific idiosyncracies of the version handling could be safely > confined to the platform-specific code. I.E ipaplatform.base would define > version comparisons via standard pkg_resources parser and fedora/redhat would > override this with their platform-specific quirks. Somebody used a time machine and implemented your proposal already. ```tasks.parse_ipa_version()``` is a generic version parsing function. On RPM platforms it returns an object that uses ```librpm```. IMHO it's ok to use ```tasks.parse_ipa_version()``` everywhere. """ See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/254#issuecomment-261533679
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