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From: Jorge Godoy <[email protected]>
To: Listmail <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:48:08 -0300
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Listmail <[email protected]> writes:

>>> Yeah yeah, but terminology aside, having 2 or three digits in each
>>> attribute is just wrong!
>>
>> Terminology aside, why? The unit is "8.1" not "8" and "1". It makes no
>> sense to say you're on version 8, in the given context, so why should the
>> XML data pretend there is?
>>
>> //Magnus
>
> 	Just pretend that :
>
> 	- version = a tuple of integers (a, b, c, ...)
> 	- major = (a, b)
> 	- minor = (c, ...)
>
> 	Besides, that is sortable (unlike strings where 15 < 2) :

But then, floats are as sortable as integers and 8.3 < 15.1...


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Jorge Godoy      <[email protected]>

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