"Cary Coutant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * GOLD_VERSION should perhaps say something about the format of the >> string. > > OK. What would be reasonable to say here? Just a string of the form > "n.m"? Is it reasonable to require that later versions are lexically > greater than earlier versions (e.g., can't have "1.9" then "1.10"), or > is it OK to require parsing the string to do comparisons?
I think we should either do a n.m[.o] string as you suggest, and not say anything about lexical requirements--that is require parsing the string--or we should say it's a number, e.g., n * 100 + m. Ian
