On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:47:21PM -0700, Shawn Walker wrote: > 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.
Sounds good, thanks for changing this. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
