On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:02:17PM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 07/16/10 12:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >Hi Shawn,
> >
> >This looks good, just one nit.
> >
> >On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:26:58AM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote:
> >>webrev:
> >> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~swalker/pkg-16567/
> >
> >
> >man/pkgrepo.1.txt:
> >
> > - lines 101& 102: Can you explain what you mean by, "string is not
> > guaranteed to be comparable in any fashion between versions."
> >
> > I assume that some comparison is possible, otherwise we can't tell
> > versions apart, but maybe I've misunderstood.
>
> I'm honestly not certain; it's the same text used in the pkg(1) man
> page. If I had to guess, I'd say it means you can't use any form of
> comparison (such as sorting, <, >, etc.) to determine if a version
> is older or newer.
Ok, that explanation makes sense. Would you be willing to change this
text to something like:
The version string uniquely identifies a particular version.
The values produced by the version operation are not sortable,
or safe comparison beyond equality.
I don't know if that makes it any clearer, but it's my attempt. :)
-j
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