Ordering of versions

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2011/11/9 7:47 -0800, gnormington at vmware.com:
> I see. How are the tokens of a qualifier compared? If they are compared
> just like the initial part,

Yes.

>                             then that would be a numeric comparison for
> numeric tokens, but what about non-numeric tokens like BETA and GA?

They are compared lexicographically, so BETA < GA.

>                                                                     Are
> tokens compared as strings if at least one of the tokens being compared
> is non-numeric?

Yes.

> Or I can read the code if you prefer to send me a link. ;-)

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jigsaw/jigsaw/jdk/file/960eb03d1270/src/share/classes/org/openjdk/jigsaw/JigsawVersion.java

- Mark