On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:26:22 -0400 (EDT), James Olin Oden
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>This could be extended further such that a rpm could provide a function 
>that comparies versions (kind of like passing a function to the sort 
>routines that understands how to discern the magnitude of the objects
>to be sorted).  This is a completely rough idea (i.e. there are many
>details to be worked out), but it seems feasible to the naive (-;
>
>Anyway, what do you think (you being anyone that cares)?

I've thought about this before. The biggest problem I see is what do you do
when two packages specify different functions? E.g. foo version 1.05
specifies integer comparisons and foo version 1.3 specifies floating point
comparisons.

Ganesh



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