Propose of new version scheme

[Jochen Bern]

On 20.03.2014 16:06, Günter Kits wrote:
> This would be extremely pain in the ass for scripts to do automatical
> version comparison.
> 
> On 20.03.2014 17:04, Jochen Bern wrote:
>> > Changing the major "number" to letters in alphabetical order or 
>> > codenames beginning with them, then? Or are there package
>> > management tools which can't work with that?
>> > 
>> > 1.5	  ->	Aluminum.5
>> > 2.0	  ->	Boron.0
>> > 3.1.41	  ->	Chrome.1.41
>> > 4.7.11	  ->	Darmstadtium.7.11
>> > etc. etc..

As painful as normalizing the leading A..Z back to a number before doing
comparisons, but OK.

So we're stuck with '^[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*(|\.[0-9][0-9]*)$' and
only increasing every number unless reset? Increasing by *one*,
specifically? Forbid leading zeros, just in case someone's doing the
traditional octal notation recognition? Still no prob. Pick one of the
mandatory numeral parts and decree that it shall count from 100 or 1000
up, rather than from 0 or 1. (Make it 100, rather than 1000, if you
think you might still run into machines with single-byte integers. ;-)

Regards,
								J. Bern
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