Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

Listmail <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> writes:

>>> Yeah yeah, but terminology aside, having 2 or three digits in each
>>> attribute is just wrong!
>>
>> Terminology aside, why? The unit is "8.1" not "8" and "1". It makes no
>> sense to say you're on version 8, in the given context, so why should the
>> XML data pretend there is?
>>
>> //Magnus
>
> Just pretend that :
>
> - version = a tuple of integers (a, b, c, ...)
> - major = (a, b)
> - minor = (c, ...)
>
> Besides, that is sortable (unlike strings where 15 < 2) :

But then, floats are as sortable as integers and 8.3 < 15.1...

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