On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:21:48AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> This way the whole version comparing stuff is fully pluggable, as one
> can define how a version is parsed into its chunks and second how those
> chunks are compared.

Good luck with providing rpms for multiple distributions that use
different version comparision settings...

Having a fixed algorithm in place also has some benefits.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@suse.de
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