On 07/16/10 01:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:02:17PM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote:
On 07/16/10 12:58 PM, [email protected] wrote:
...
- 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. :)
I've used:
99 version
100 Display a unique string identifying the version of the
101 pkg(5) system. The values produced by the version
102 operation are not sortable, or safe for comparison
103 beyond equality.
Cheers,
-Shawn
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