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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] [Patch] up2date-ng and CPAN package list
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:29:05
Message-Id: 45CA3681.3070400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] [Patch] up2date-ng and CPAN package list by Daniel Westermann-Clark
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4 Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:
5 > The comparison in the patch is too simplistic ... to catch this case I
6 > think up2date-ng.pl would need to generate a list of version numbers
7 > from CPAN with zeroes in place of the decimal points (instead of
8 > having the decimal points stripped).
9 >
10 > /me goes to check if the same process would work for version numbers
11 > on the Perl ebuilds
12 >
13
14 if we're going to go hog wild on this....split on the decimals, pad 0's
15 at the end for equal lengths, then compare...i think....seem to remember
16 using that technique once successfully, but then i dropped the code for
17 sanity reasons (unrelated to the padding for equal lengths bit)
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