From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 23 16:36:05 2006
Subject: Re: comparing version numbers
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hauberg <soren at hauberg dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:34:43 +0100

tor, 23 03 2006 kl. 17:22 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> If there is a need to compare version numbers, then perhaps we should
> have a function to do it that can handle things like 2.9.5+ or
> 2.9.5+SVN-serial-number (or similar).
There is a function for comparing version numbers in the package system I 
sent you a while back. I don't think it supports anything else than numbers,
but it might provide a starting base. (I don't have the source in front
of me, so I can't say what should be changed)

Søren
> Comments?
> 
> jwe
>