Yes, dealing with version numbers is really sweet in julia. I believe Stefan
deserves credit for this. Incidentally, if you parse C library version numbers
into a VersionNumber type, you can use all the same machinery.
--Tim
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 04:19:44 AM Andreas Lobinger wrote:
Apparently it's important to get it right from the beginning:
version numbers should be boring
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369/version-numbers-should-be-boring/
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:25:54 PM UTC+1, Tim Holy wrote:
Yes, dealing with version numbers is really sweet
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:03:34 AM UTC-5, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
What is the recommended way to get a julia major/minor version number (i
need to check v.0.4)? Just parse Base.VERSION?
Within Julia:
*julia *
*VERSION**v0.4.0-dev+2340*
*julia *
*VERSION.minor**4*
Also,
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 7:03:34 AM UTC-5, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
What is the recommended way to get a julia major/minor version number (i
need to check v.0.4)? Just parse Base.VERSION?
You normally don't need to get the major/minor explicitly, because
comparison operations are
