Re: Hopefully final version of ~ version number policy

[Gunnar Wolf]

Russ Allbery dijo [Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:05:21PM -0800]:
> >> @@ -2713,7 +2713,15 @@
> >>which may be empty) are compared lexically.  If a difference
> >>is found it is returned.  The lexical comparison is a
> >>comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters
> >> -  sort earlier than all the non-letters.
> >> +  sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
> >> +  sorts before anything, even the end of a part.  For example,
> >> +  the following parts are in sorted order: ~~,
> >> +  ~~a, ~, the empty part,
> 
> > So, is the greatest version number at the beginning or at the end of
> > that sorted list? Yes, this is clear from context, but IMO an example
> > should be more explicit.
> 
> How about if I make that "in sorted order from earliest to latest"?

Maybe making it a bit more graphical:

   1.0~~ < 1.0~~a < 1.0~ < 1.0

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Re: Hopefully final version of ~ version number policy

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> -   sort earlier than all the non-letters.
>>> +   sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
>>> +   sorts before anything, even the end of a part.  For example,
>>> +   the following parts are in sorted order: ~~,
>>> +   ~~a, ~, the empty part,
>> So, is the greatest version number at the beginning or at the end of
>> that sorted list? Yes, this is clear from context, but IMO an example
>> should be more explicit.
> How about if I make that "in sorted order from earliest to latest"?

Yeah, that sounds better.

Marc
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Re: Hopefully final version of ~ version number policy

[Russ Allbery]

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Here's a new version of the Policy patch for ~ in version numbers that
>> hopefully incorporates all of the suggestions.

> You will hate me for this one :-)

Oh, it's fine.  We haven't worked out how best to pull my stuff into the
central arch repository yet anyway (mostly because I haven't asked), so
none of it is pulled up yet.

>> @@ -2713,7 +2713,15 @@
>>  which may be empty) are compared lexically.  If a difference
>>  is found it is returned.  The lexical comparison is a
>>  comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters
>> -sort earlier than all the non-letters.
>> +sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
>> +sorts before anything, even the end of a part.  For example,
>> +the following parts are in sorted order: ~~,
>> +~~a, ~, the empty part,

> So, is the greatest version number at the beginning or at the end of
> that sorted list? Yes, this is clear from context, but IMO an example
> should be more explicit.

How about if I make that "in sorted order from earliest to latest"?

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Re: Hopefully final version of ~ version number policy

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

Hi,

Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's a new version of the Policy patch for ~ in version numbers that
> hopefully incorporates all of the suggestions.

You will hate me for this one :-)

> @@ -2713,7 +2713,15 @@
>   which may be empty) are compared lexically.  If a difference
>   is found it is returned.  The lexical comparison is a
>   comparison of ASCII values modified so that all the letters
> - sort earlier than all the non-letters.
> + sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
> + sorts before anything, even the end of a part.  For example,
> + the following parts are in sorted order: ~~,
> + ~~a, ~, the empty part,

So, is the greatest version number at the beginning or at the end of
that sorted list? Yes, this is clear from context, but IMO an example
should be more explicit.

Marc
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