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Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib? |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:05:12 +0200 |
Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Ian. The GNU gnulib project is considering adding a function
> that would compare strings in the same way that dpkg compares
> version numbers, as you can see in the thread here:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/14693
>
> Is there a chance that you would be willing to contribute to the
> FSF the actual code from dpkg for this? (Otherwise, we will
> probably have one person write a formal specification for the
> version comparison algorithm, and then another person implement
> something equivalent from that specification.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
Hi Ian,
Perhaps you didn't see the message quoted above?
We're about to re-implement verrevcmp from scratch,
but you might be able to save us the trouble.
What do you think?
Jim
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, (continued)
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Jim Meyering, 2008/09/07
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Kamil Dudka, 2008/09/17
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Bruno Haible, 2008/09/17
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Kamil Dudka, 2008/09/17
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Kamil Dudka, 2008/09/18
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Bruno Haible, 2008/09/21
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Ben Pfaff, 2008/09/21
- Re: Issue with ls -v / sort -V and strverscmp() usage, Bruno Haible, 2008/09/21
- willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ben Pfaff, 2008/09/21
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Jim Meyering, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Jim Meyering, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/30
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Kamil Dudka, 2008/09/29
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/30
- Re: willing to contribute verrevcmp to gnulib?, Ian Jackson, 2008/09/30