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WordTickler · 2014-04-03, 14:33

I was reading the addon wiki at: "2.1.2.1 How versioning works" and ran into a bit of confusion. I sure could use some interpretation from others, here.

The entire section says...

Quote:2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.9
2.3 is newer than 2.2.9
2.3.0 is newer than 2.2
2.2.1 is older than 2.2.1b (only one character => newer version)
2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.1bc (two or more characters => older version)
2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.1 beta
2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.1beta

Text should only be added for a beta or release version. In other cases version number should only contain numbers.

The following two lines make my head explode:

Quote:2.2.1 is older than 2.2.1b (only one character => newer version)
2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.1bc (two or more characters => older version)

I can't see how 2.2.1bc could be older than 2.2.1 if 2.2.1b is newer than 2.2.1.

Anyone?

Thanks,

WordTickler

powlo · 2014-04-03, 20:05

Umm. And why is 2.2.1 newer than 2.2.9?

Karnagious · 2014-04-04, 00:27

That whole section is nonsense.

**ronie** · 2014-04-04, 00:48

(2014-04-03, 20:05)powlo Wrote: Umm. And why is 2.2.1 newer than 2.2.9?

fixed.

powlo · 2014-04-04, 12:45

And related to WordTicklers question (hope I'm not hijacking), is 2.2.1b > 2.2.1c? Are alphas handled as an alphabetical progression?

DoubleT · 2014-04-04, 16:11

Yeah this was making my head explode a while back also, glad it turns out it was wrong and numbers werent reordered overnight Smile

**takoi** · (This post was last modified: 2014-04-06, 15:09 by takoi.)

(2014-04-04, 12:45)powlo Wrote: is 2.2.1b > 2.2.1c? Are alphas handled as an alphabetical progression?

Wondering about this too. And what about text with two or more characters. Can you do 2.2.1beta1, 2.2.1beta2 etc?

WordTickler · (This post was last modified: 2014-04-23, 23:08 by WordTickler.)

(2014-04-03, 20:05)powlo Wrote: Umm. And why is 2.2.1 newer than 2.2.9?

Well, it's possible 1 comes before 9 in the way revisioning works but, mathematically, maybe the .1 is looked at as .10 (".10") which would make it come after ".9". Well, hell--that would mean ".9" means ".90" right? An explicit zero would be needed as in ".09" following that logic. Sheesh...

I don't know how XBMC looks at it--hence this post.

josetaza · 2014-04-21, 20:45

Just found out that "2.2.1 is newer than 2.2.1beta" is also NOT true.
I updated the Dbmc (Dropbox addon) from 0.7.2beta (test version) to 0.7.2, but XBMC is not updating to 0.7.2...