version_compare() logic issue - can we work around this?

20 years ago by Greg Beaver — view source — reply

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Hi,

version_compare('5.1.0-dev', '5.1.0b3')

always claims 5.1.0-dev is older. This has been causing intermittent
problems with testing PEAR and other packages with the latest CVS of
PHP. Could we change the version of PHP in development to something
version_compare can work with like 5.1.0RC2-dev even if it ends up being
5.1.0b4, 5.1.0 stable or anything else?

This would be a big help if it isn't a big hastle.

Thanks,
Greg

20 years ago by Derick Rethans — view source — reply

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Hi,

version_compare('5.1.0-dev', '5.1.0b3')

always claims 5.1.0-dev is older. This has been causing intermittent
problems with testing PEAR and other packages with the latest CVS of
PHP. Could we change the version of PHP in development to something
version_compare can work with like 5.1.0RC2-dev even if it ends up being
5.1.0b4, 5.1.0 stable or anything else?

It was always custom to do this:

5.1.0-dev
5.1.0b1
5.1.0b2-dev
5.1.0b2
5.1.0RC1-dev
5.1.0RC1
5.1.0RC2-dev
...

5.1.0

But for some reason the current RMs don't do that anymore.

Derick

Derick Rethans
http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org

20 years ago by Jani Taskinen — view source — reply

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It was always custom to do this:

5.1.0-dev
5.1.0b1
5.1.0b2-dev
5.1.0b2
5.1.0RC1-dev
5.1.0RC1
5.1.0RC2-dev
...

5.1.0

But for some reason the current RMs don't do that anymore.

 They (Zeev and Andi) propably didn't know they should be doing
 that. I once thought having some README.RELEASE_MASTER would be
 a good idea, but I'm too lazy to write one. :)

 --Jani

20 years ago by Zeev Suraski — view source — reply

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At 22:21 05/09/2005, Derick Rethans wrote:

Hi,

version_compare('5.1.0-dev', '5.1.0b3')

always claims 5.1.0-dev is older. This has been causing intermittent
problems with testing PEAR and other packages with the latest CVS of
PHP. Could we change the version of PHP in development to something
version_compare can work with like 5.1.0RC2-dev even if it ends up being
5.1.0b4, 5.1.0 stable or anything else?

It was always custom to do this:

5.1.0-dev
5.1.0b1
5.1.0b2-dev
5.1.0b2
5.1.0RC1-dev
5.1.0RC1
5.1.0RC2-dev
...

5.1.0

But for some reason the current RMs don't do that anymore.

I beg to differ and say that it wasn't always custom. Not that I care, I
don't have any problem with switching to it.

Zeev