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Cc: Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>,
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:46:05 +0800
To: Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] common issue with version_compare()
From: tjerk.meesters@gmail.com (Tjerk Meesters)



On 21 Jul, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:

>>    1.01 eq 1.1
>=20
> Could you explain this one to me?  In every versioning system I've ever
> used, 1.1 would be greater than 1.01, not equal.

Because 01 is just a padded version of 1, probably used to make it easier fo=
r regular string comparisons (until you reach major version 10).=20

>=20
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Hi!
>>>=20
>>>>> For example, I was not the only one who found it odd that "1.0" is
>>>>> considered less than "1.0.0" - wouldn't it make sense to "pad" the
>>> shortest
>>>>> version-number with zeroes? e.g. "1.0" if compared against "1.0.0"
>>> would be
>>>>> padded with zeroes at the end, e.g. as "1.0.0".
>>>=20
>>> 1.0.0 and 1.0 are different things. If you want to make a comparison
>>> that takes into account only two components, you can just cut them both
>>> to two components, then compare.
>>> --
>>> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
>>> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/
>>> (408)454-6900 ext. 227
>>>=20