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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-03-16 15:00:36 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-03-16 15:00:36 -0400
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Clarify what "alphabetical" and "lexical" mean to us.
Spotted by Robert Ransom
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release. If the tag ends with "-cvs" or "-dev", you're looking at a
development snapshot that came after a given release. If we *do*
encounter two versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them
- lexically.
+ lexically as ASCII byte strings.
Now, we start each development branch with (say) 0.1.1.1-alpha. The
patchlevel increments consistently as the status tag changes, for