[fpc-pascal] Comparing version numbers

[A.J. Venter]

> Your code can't work with these ones, 4.1.15  and 4.12.1 because you
> only pad the 3rd (15 and 1), you need to pad each part of the
> version, my pseudocode out 4.1[space].15 and 4.12.1[space]. You can
> call your function with the 4,4; again with 12,1 utnil you get a
> result.... but you need a ternary boolean, as 4,4 generates an
> invalid result state.
Mmm, good point, I didn't think of that, but it's fairly easy to expand now (I 
am much better at reading real code than pseudocode)

A.J.

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