Also perhaps the more general mathematical function On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:04 PM Randall S. Becker <rsbec...@nexbridge.com> wrote:
> On September 13, 2021 2:40 PM, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:04 PM Jouke Witteveen <j.wittev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Numbers can come from $(words ...), automatic variables such as > >> $(MAKELEVEL), from environment variables, or from shell output such as > >> through $(shell expr ...). The $(compare ...) function allows > >> conditional evaluation controlled by numerical variables. > >> > >> * NEWS: Announce this feature. > >> * doc/make.texi (Functions for Conditionals): Document 'compare'. > >> * src/function.c (func_compare): Create the 'compare' built-in function. > >> * tests/scripts/functions/compare: Test the 'compare' built-in function. > >> --- > >> > >> This is a cleaned-up and documented version of a proposal submitted a > >> year ago. The interface was conceived by Edward Welbourne and myself. > >> Personally, I would not introduce mathematical operators to make, but > >> given that numbers are a thing and they do pop up in variables, a > >> comparison function makes sense to me. > >> > >> Thanks for considering! > >> - Jouke > > > >I would still be interested in seeing this patch series I sent two months > ago considered. I am not in a rush: this is just a friendly reminder. > > I am interested in this series as well, although something more general > might also be interesting, like a general version compare function like > $(compare 1.6.1 1.6.100), and that also take into account character-based > versioning, like $(compare A10.88 B20.94). > > -Randall > > >
