Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:52:37 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin] Message-ID: <20020404175237.GB30978@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3CA8B996.9050302@cox.net> <3CAC7857.3050307@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CAC7857.3050307@cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:59:19AM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: >An obvious problem is having everyone use a revision-level scheme that >tests correctly. I see at least two very different schemes here. >Also, setup would need to parse, e.g. 1.9-3 so that it's less than >1.10-1. I'll have to do a more thorough survey to see if a simple >minded algorithm would catch all the cases. setup.exe has been able to determine that 1.9-3 < 1.10-1 for a couple of years now. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/