Drake Wilson <drake@dasyatidae.net> wrote:
Curiosity: what _are_ your version numbers like, and how do you compare them? It was a little too hard to find this readily from your website. Maybe seeing a good example would help.
A version specifier has a major and a minor number, a status (alpha, beta, release candidate and patchlevel), a status number and a name. This is the beginning of the VERSION function in all my libraries: (defun version (&optional (type :number)) "Return the current version of Clon. TYPE can be one of :number, :short or :long. A version number is computed as major*10000 + minor*100 + patchlevel, leaving two digits for each level. Alpha, beta and rc status are ignored in version numbers. A short version is something like 1.3{a,b,rc}4, or 1.3.4 for patchlevel. Alpha, beta or rc levels start at 1. Patchlevels start at 0 but are ignored in the output, so that 1.3.0 appears as just 1.3. A long version is something like 1.3 {alpha,beta,release candidate,patchlevel} 4 \"Michael Brecker\". As for the short version, a patchlevel of 0 is ignored in the output." -- My new Jazz CD entitled "Roots and Leaves" is out! Check it out: http://didierverna.com/records/roots-and-leaves.php Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info