[Numpy-discussion] Please comment on SVN versioning convention

[Andrew Straw]

Sasha wrote:

>On 7/24/06, Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> wrote:
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>>BTW, Fernando, all this is so that we can still have the svn revision
>>number in __version__, but so that it doesn't screw up sorting.
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>Sorting __version__ is screwed up regardless of svn revision number:
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>>>>'1.9' < '1.10'
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>False
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Not if you parse __version__ with something that understands version
numbers.