John Wu
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Bearing in mind that
100 > 9
and
.9 > .100
Which of these is the later version?
Version 2.1.100
Version 2.1.9
I'm trying to figure out whether the dots in a version label act as a decimal point or if they are simply delimiters around independently incrementing numbers.
The common practice seems to have 2.1.9 is before 2.1.100. See for instance
but people tends to do their own thing, especially when considering old enough software (the RPM documentation reference hints that Perl version had such oddity in the past, probably related to the presence of initial 0 in a segment)