Re: ls -v is still inconsistent

[Kamil Dudka]

On Friday 20 of March 2009 12:36:38 Bruno Haible wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Perhaps "~" isn't the only character we should treat that way.
>
> I'd say that '~' is pretty special here because it's used as backup file
> suffix by many text editors. Which is not the case for '_', '-', and
> others.

Definitely. The main difference is that '_' and (especially) '-' are version 
number's separators, we can't easy cut them off. AFAIK '~' is never used as
a version separator.

But it's sort of optimization problem. If anybody has a better idea about
the regular expression, send it to me. I'll compare it with the current 
implementation and other known implementations and send you the result.


Kamil