Re: [vassalengine-devel] stable and unstable releases

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

Thus spake "Rodney Kinney":
> 
> > E.g.: 3.0.15 < 3.1.0-svn2708 < 3.1.0-beta1 < 3.1.0-rc3 < 3.1.0
> 
> 
> This ordering makes sense to me.  The new code should also be able to parse
> the old format for beta versions,
> e.g. 3.0b8 < 3.0
> 
> rk

I thought we said that one of the versions being compared will always
be the verision of VASSAL doing the comparison. In that case, whenever
two version strings are compared with this code, at least one will
always have a version number of 3.1.0 or greater; my algorighm stops
parsing as soon as there's enough information to decide the ordering,
so the 'b8' part (which would be considered invalid, if the parser got
that far) is never read.

That is, 3.0b8 < 3.1.0 successfully. 3.0b8 < 3.0 will fail, but we
don't need to be able to do that.

-- 
J.