Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-10-26 at 22:17 +0100, Exim Git Commits Mailing List wrote:
>> Author: Nigel Metheringham
>
>> Changed version comparison to be string based
>
> Deoh! Sorry. :(
>
> I loath every part of Perl's version numbering and comparison operators
> and it's what finally stopped me using Perl for my own projects. In
> Python, these would just be split on '.' to tuples and compared that
> way, naturally getting the right results. Tuple comparison is Just Done
> Right.
Problem is version numbers are hard, and people tend to have, say,
5.00_RC1 5.00 5.00.01 - and they need to sort in that order; and thats
before you go completely pathological.
I'll hack together a better version comparison - there is a decent CPAN
module that I think will do the right thing, but probably don't want to
bloat the dependancies.
Nigel.
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