Did i just made the fastest dependency checker in the world? (198 packages in 1.5 seconds)

[Mark]

it wouldn`t be a problem if you could say things like this:

1.2b3 > 1.2b4 and that just the changing number is compared to see if a
higher one is avalible.
so in this case that woud be this:

3 > 4

perhaps that`s possible with regular expressions..??? but than again you
can`t check in mysql to see if the version (with a "b" in it) is greather or
less than a existing version.

i will do my best to get this working ^_^ i would love to have the fastest
dependency checker in the world that`s realy working.. even without the
strange logic of version numbers.

to be clear:
1.01
1.10
1.1
== smaler than:
1.20

that`s how my dep checker will work.
and anyone that would be willing write this script in c++ with me?



2007/4/10, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
>
>
> Le Mar 10 avril 2007 16:23, Mark a écrit :
> > if it isn`t logic than why is the current system still existing?
> > it can be so much faster is logic is being used ^_^
>
> RPM versionning rules have to match versionning rules used by the packaged
> projects in real life. Users want to match package versions to the
> versions advertised on upstream web sites.
>
> Since what software writers consider sane versionning is only slightly
> more predictable than winning loto numbers, rpm internal rules border on
> the complex.
>
> In other news the software industry was still US-centric, and americans
> still pondering the benefits of going metric.
>
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