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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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