Re: version-sort ugliness or bugs

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 09:38:54AM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote:
> On 2021-04-15 18:44, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:47:34PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > I'm currently using version-sort in order to get integers sorted
> > > in strings (due to the lack of simple numeric sort like in zsh),
> > > but I've noticed some ugliness. This may be bugs, not I'm not sure
> [ ... ]
> > I think all of your problems ("ugliness") is caused by the concept 
> > of "file
> > extensions" in GNU Coreutils version sort.
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#Special-handling-of-file-extensions
>
> That strikes me as a very poor set of requirements.

Welcome to real life. The requirements were based on trying to sort 
existing versioning schemes, not by defining what versioning scheme is 
acceptable. It's certainly a much easier problem if you change the 
scope.