[gobolinux-devel] Version-comparison viewer for packages/recipes/repos

[Isaac Dupree]

There are a few apps with highly confusing version numbers. For example, 
Expect <http://expect.nist.gov/> has a released 5.44.0 and 5.44.1, but 
they are "recalled": 5.43.0 is the actual latest version (as used by 
Linux-From-Scratch dev. version, for example).  And there have been 
worse offenders on occasion, for example Adium (luckily OSX-only; see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium for the horrendous history).  I think 
it might be beneficial to provide a way to override the default 
version-ordering.  Also there are some apps that are renamed while being 
the same thing, such as gaim->pidgin or ethereal->wireshark... but those 
usually don't cause any real trouble.  It's more the above situations, 
or other non-renamings like Qt(3 vs. 4) that cause trouble...

~Isaac