Alternative Version implementation

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/23/2016 01:46 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 03/23/2016 09:20 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> I've gone ahead and written a new Version implementation that implements
>> the rules I've described.  It seems to work OK though I am having a hard
>> time running all tests locally due to some environmental problem that
>> I'm still working on, so I don't have a webrev yet.  But I do have a
>> diff that can be examined (and commented upon) at [1].
>
> One oddity that springs up relating to numeric versions when not
> normalizing the version string in any way is that version segments
> leading zeros parse and sort strangely.  After fiddling around with
> various approaches, currently I've settled on this order:

After some discussion with Paul Benedict and Neil Bartlett, I've updated 
the comparator code to sort as follows:

1
1.0
1.00
1.000
1.1
1.01
1.001
1.10
1.010
1.11
1.011
1.100
1.101
1.110
1.111

The numeric value is most significant, and the length (shortest to 
longest) is least significant.

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- DML