On 7/5/11 8:59 AM, Bruce Korb wrote:
>> The issue is extremely nontrivial.
>
> The normal case is to sort full releases. The goal in "sort -V" was to make
> the usual case easy, not to make an authoritative solution to the intractable
> problem. In any event, Chet doesn't think there is sufficient demand for the
> facility and I certainly defer to that. In my little world, it would be quite
> convenient.
This is an excellent argument for a utility to perform version comparisons.
Such a program could be arbitrarily complex. This feature is too new to
know how it will evolve.
Chet
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