[arch-dev-public] [arch-notifications] Integrity Check i686: core, extra, community 22-11-2010

[Dan McGee]

On Monday, November 22, 2010, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> Maybe it would be way more portable if we would just call the vercmp
>> binary; or maybe python has such a method built-in like PHP has.
>
> I've used distutils.version to some success for this sort of thing.
> Not sure if it follows the pacman rules to the letter though

Look in the archives; we switched it on purpose and sped it up by like
10x. So calling the vercmp binary is not a great idea.

-Dan