[sword-devel] Module version numbers

[David Haslam]

Ignoring the spurious SwordVersion hit, it seems that the string after the dash is a date in six digit format.

IMHO, these modules should simply be re-issued with the dates recorded in the respective History key.

It's not worth the effort to make the API parse these as they are now.
The dash is a nonconformance to what should be in the Version key.

Aside: Are there any limits to the number of dot separators in the Version value, or to the number of digits in total or in any part?
Would SWORD crash with a buffer overflow were it to encounter an inordinately long Version?

Best regards,

David

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 09:44, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Most modules include version numbers matching the regular expression
>
> ^[0-9]+(.[0-9]+)*$
>
> However, looking at the .conf files, there are version fields with
> values also containing dashes:
>
> ~/.sword/mods.d $ grep -E 'Version=.*-' *
> 2tgreek.conf:Version=2.7-120109
> invstrongsrealgreek.conf:Version=1.4-090107
> jesermons.conf:SwordVersion=2017-05-24
> strongsrealgreek.conf:Version=1.5-150704
> tischmorph.conf:Version=2.7-120109
>
> How should these be interpreted? Should 1.2-3.4 be interpreted as
> (1).(2-3).(4) or (1.2)-(3.4)? It seems that SWVersion interprets such as
> just 1.2.4 (without the -3 entirely).
>
> God bless!
> J
>
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