[squeak-dev] Re: 1.0 not a valid VersionNumber?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Apr 9 16:57:24 UTC 2008
John Thornborrow wrote:
> Wouldn't that just be "Version 1" ?
Simplified example. The real version number I'm interested in looks like
"1.0.34". But it looks like VersionNumber is a no-go for me anyway as
you can't even compare, e.g., '1.1.1' asVersion <= '1.2.3' asVersion.
Does anyone actually use VersionNumber? I must be missing the real use
cases for it.
Cheers,
- Andreas
>
> Andreas Raab wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> Just ran into the problem that
>>
>> VersionNumber fromString: '1.0'.
>>
>> complains that "VersionNumbers cannot contain zero or negative numbers".
>>
>> Question: Is there an implementation dependency for that or is it simply
>> that VersionNumber is being overly paranoid here? In its current
>> incarnation it's basically useless for me and I'd rather have the check
>> be for negative numbers only.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
>>
>>
>
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