Raul Miller writes:
> Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey, could someone please explain what a *negative* meaning would be
> > good for ? I think I already argumented against that earlier in this
> > tread (or was it a private mail to Jason ?), but so far I read no
> > arguments *in favor of* this.
[...]
> the point is to have a character which sorts before any other printable
> character that would appear before the empty string, so that pre-release
> versions can be made to appear before the final version.
Well, I'm quite aware of this "simple" pre-release issues.
My concerns is that, in my understanding, some people seem to want to
add a "negative meaning" to the special char, whatever it will be,
ie. the following will be an ordered sequence:
...
1.0~2foo-1
1.0~1bar-1
1.0-1
whereas it seems to me more useful and intuitive to give it a
"positive meaning", in which the sequence would be:
1.0~1foo-1
1.0~2bar-1
...
1.0-1
This leaves the available versionning to be *greater* than the most
recent one used, whereas the "negative" scheme leaves them as *lower*
than the ones already used. I must say I can't see any use for this,
but I may miss something obvious to others ...
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