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On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:15:46PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Robert Collins wrote: >>AH yes - thus showcasing the point at hand: >>"tetex" - "beta-20001218" - "cygver" is parsed as >>"tetex-beta" - "20001218" - "cygver"! > > >Hmmm...I must spend too much time with computers. My human brain parsed >tetex-beta-20001218-2 as "tetex-beta" "20001218" "2". > >You have been using tetex as an example of how setup/upset *misparses* a >string, while I thought it was a perfect example of good parsing. :-) Me too. It's the "tetex-beta" package. I shudder at the thought of trying to sort versions if beta is part of the version number. cgf
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