Re: [vassalengine-devel] stable and unstable releases

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Joel Uckelman:
> 
> Follow-up: 
> 
> Here's what I implemented in 3.1.0-svn2708:
> 
> The version string has two parts: The version number, and the (optional)
> version tag. The version number is a series of period-seperated nonnegative
> integers. The version tag is of the form '-(svn|beta|rc)\d+'.
> 
> The higher-order parts of the version string are on the left. Version
> numbers are ordered how you'd expect. E.g. 3.0.1 < 3.0.10 < 3.1.0.
> Tags are significant only if two version strings have the same version
> number.
> 
> Translate a tag into ingeters as folows: 
> 
> -    --> -1
> svn  -->  0
> beta -->  1
> rc   -->  2
> \d+  -->  itself
> 
> This ensures the following order: If two version have the same version
> number, but one has a tag and the other doesn't, the tagless one is later;
> and svn < beta < rc.
> 
> E.g.: 3.0.15 < 3.1.0-svn2708 < 3.1.0-beta1 < 3.1.0-rc3 < 3.1.0 
> 
> Comments?
>

I found a bug. Minor revision:

The end-of-string is mapped to -1, and the tag hyphen is mapped to -2.

That gives the correct ordering between full releases and releases with
tags.
 
-- 
J.