<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Is there any "spec" or "documentation" of version checking and dependency checking?<br><br>IMHO to change, add features or reimplement existing tools or projects. we need documentation, like developer-readables-mini-rfc's <br>Read source code to extract logic will produce mistake's , specially with different languages.<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Mensaje original ----<br>De: Matthias Saou <thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net><br>Para: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com<br>Enviado: miércoles 11 de abril de 2007, 7:40:40<br>Asunto: Re: Did i just made the fastest dependency checker in the world? (198 packages in 1.5 seconds)<br><br><div>Mark wrote :<br><br>> some more info on the versions like how they are calculated<br>> and in which case would be helpfull.. or a link to the file<br>> that i need to look through<br><br>Someone already answered that one, I'm afraid : The rpm source code.<br>You can speculate all you want on "replacement" methods to compare<br>versions, but chances you'll get it right are near zero... unless you<br>use the exact same algorithm (and trick and hacks?) than rpm itself.<br><br>Matthias<br><br>-- <br>Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : <a target="_blank" href="http://freshrpms.net/">http://freshrpms.net/</a><br>Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2943.fc6<br>Load : 2.17 2.18 2.37<br><br>-- <br>fedora-devel-list mailing list<br>fedora-devel-list@redhat.com<br><a target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br> <hr size=1> <b>Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí.</b><br> Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas,<br> está en <b>Yahoo! Respuestas</b> (Beta).<br> <b><a href="http://ar.answers.yahoo.com">Probalo ya!</a></b> </body></html>