On 2/24/26 09:17, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 24 Feb 2026, at 07:39, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/23/26 23:59, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
>>
>> Contents of https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/ give the impression to
>> be alphabetically sorted (uppercase chars coming before lowercase ones).
> 
> It is not the sort order as such that is the problem, the problem is the
> construction of the version numbers. The code has to interpret these
> numbers to figure out which is the latest, and that means it has to parse
> the version strings. The code is not all that smart, so it tends to fail on 
> version strings that change their internal logic over time.
> 
> I created basicexam.zip manually, linking to basicexam-2026.02.18.zip. 
> 
> As long as the future version numbers stick to YYYY.MM.DD as well, there will
> be no more problems.
Hi Taco,

many thanks for fixing the issue and explaining it.

Pablo
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