Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

[Craig Hughes]

Heh, one of my personal pet peeves is that people don't use string libraries where xxx123xxx sorts ahead of xxx20xxx -- I can't really think of any situation ever where you would want sorting to happen the other way.  Ever.  I remember back in the early 90s a guy I knew at Stanford wrote an extension for the Mac which patched the System 7 internal StringCompare function to redefine sorting in this way, so that things like the Finder would just work right when sorting numbered files.  I thought it was an absolutely elegant hack, and have endeavored to follow its example since whenever writing a string compare routine for any reason.  Being a stubborn SOB, I tend therefore to use a natural file numbering, version numbering, etc system without superfluous zeros, and simply to encourage people in the outside world to get their string-sorting acts collectively together.

C

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:54, dman wrote:

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:43:47PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote:
| Hi there,
| 
| On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Donald Greer wrote:
| 
| >    Might I suggest a 2-prong numbering system (similar to Linux Kernel) 
| [snip]
| >    So, perhaps the release posted this morning would be "2.0.0"? and the 
| > devel release "2.1.0"? (or maybe "2.1.2023 -- 2.1.[4-digit julian date]) 
| > so that the numbering could be handled automagically by the cron scripts 
| 
| I'd suggest a two digit minor version number, for example 2.01.2023
| rather than 2.1.2023, because then we don't have the stupidity of
| version 2.2.2023 being older than 2.14.4096 (like Apache does it:).

It doesn't make it older, just that string sorting no longer matches
version ordering.  A minor detail, as far as I am concerned.  (I don't
really care which textual style is used)

-D

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