Re: LPeg 0.10

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Nick Gammon <nick@gammon.com.au> writes:

>> * Changes from version 0.9 to 0.10
>
> If I may just point out, doing either a string or numeric comparison,
> version 0.10 is a lower version than 0.9.
>
> print ("0.10" > "0.9") --> false
> print (0.10 > 0.9)  --> false

Nonetheless, it's a very standard format for version numbers.

When comparing version strings, you should compare runs of digits in
isolation, as numbers.  Most package-handling programs should do that
automatically (and glibc even contains a variant of strcmp that does it
-- "strverscmp").

-Miles

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