Package perl-Sort-Versions: Information

    Source package: perl-Sort-Versions
    Version: 1.62-alt1
    Build time:  Dec 15, 2015, 05:47 PM in the task #154967
    Category: Development/Perl
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    License: Artistic
    Summary: Sort-Versions - a perl 5 module for sorting of revision-like numbers
    Description: 
    Sort::Versions allows easy sorting of mixed non-numeric and numeric strings,
    like the 'version numbers' that many shared library systems and revision
    control packages use. This is quite useful if you are trying to deal with
    shared libraries. It can also be applied to applications that intersperse
    variable-width numeric fields within text. Other applications can
    undoubtedly be found.
    
    For an explanation of the algorithm, it's simplest to look at these examples:
    
      1.1   <  1.2
      1.1a  <  1.2
      1.1   <  1.1.1
      1.1   <  1.1a
      1.1.a <  1.1a
      1     <  a
      a     <  b
      1     <  2
      1.1-3 <  1.1-4
      1.1-5 <  1.1.6
    
    More precisely (but less comprehensibly), the two strings are treated
    as subunits delimited by periods or hyphens. Each subunit can contain
    any number of groups of digits or non-digits. If digit groups are
    being compared on both sides, a numeric comparison is used, otherwise
    a ASCII ordering is used. A group or subgroup with more units will win
    if all comparisons are equal.  A period binds digit groups together
    more tightly than a hyphen.
    
    Some packages use a different style of version numbering: a simple
    real number written as a decimal. Sort::Versions has limited support
    for this style: when comparing two subunits which are both digit
    groups, if either subunit has a leading zero, then both are treated
    like digits after a decimal point. So for example:
    
      0002  <  1
      1.06  <  1.5
    
    This won't always work, because there won't always be a leading zero
    in real-number style version numbers. There is no way for
    Sort::Versions to know which style was intended. But a lot of the time
    it will do the right thing. If you are making up version numbers, the
    style with (possibly) more than one dot is the style to use.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    perl-Sort-Versions (noarch)

    Maintainer: Vitaly Lipatov

    List of contributors:
    Igor Vlasenko
    Vitaly Lipatov

      1. perl-devel

    Last changed


    Dec. 15, 2015 Igor Vlasenko 1.62-alt1
    - automated CPAN update
    May 22, 2015 Igor Vlasenko 1.61-alt1
    - automated CPAN update
    June 16, 2014 Igor Vlasenko 1.60-alt1
    - automated CPAN update