On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:04:24PM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > As a side note, remember that the X.Y.Z form of versions (with more than > one decimal point) is a sequence of integers ...
Sadly it's worse than that. There exists popular software management software out there written by idiots who think that 3.0014 > 3.1, so that rule applies even when you're using numbers in the form X.Y with a single decimal point. Those people did a lot of hard work to break numeric comparisons, one of the few things that computers are any good at. To work around their deliberate bug you need to keep the non-integer part of your version numbers the same length, always. So use the strings "3.0014" and "3.1000" instead of the numbers 3.0014 and 3.1 if you want to use non-integers. Or just use integers. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons
