We came up with an approach at OpenAjax Alliance for version strings where the string must begin with N.N (or N.N.N or N.N.N.N) but can contain arbitrary alpha text after the number value. Then we defined how to do numeric comparisons between the leading numeric parts of two different version strings.
* http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/OpenAjax_Hub_1.0_Specification_Libraries Jon Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: To public-webapps-re Marcos Caceres [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc public-webapps 10/27/2008 11:13 <public-webapps@w3.org> AM Subject Re: [widgets] Version string You'll want to define what it means for one version string to be greater than another one. -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 27 Oct 2008, at 17:27, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > Hi All, > I would like to relax a valid version string to be any string. The > reason I want to do this is to make it easier to parse a version > string without requiring any special processing (any string will do). > We will still recommend the MIDlet Suite Versioning where "Version > numbers have the format Major.Minor[.Micro] (X.X[.X])". > > This affects the widget element's version attribute and parts of the > Updates spec in a minor way. > > Kind regards, > Marcos > > -- > Marcos Caceres > http://datadriven.com.au >
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