From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Human-readable file sorting Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:22 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56C892FA.9000002@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87povs41xg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bn7c3yms.fsf@gnus.org> <83si0npxtn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455985432 28754 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 16:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:23:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 17:23:43 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAJq-0000z0-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:23:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAJp-0001Tz-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAJc-0001Sd-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAJY-0006BZ-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:23:28 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:42139) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAJY-0006BQ-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD85160FEF for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 8kuYlNXUXSd9 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE86B160FF0 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:22 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id PSqYOVQaBofX for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1CB4160FEF for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:23:22 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200325 Archived-At: Herring, Davis wrote: > I fear the confusion from all these almost-equivalent algorithms... For what it's worth, Gnulib filevercmp is intended to be a replacement for glibc strverscmp, and to implement Debian-style version string comparison. It should be easy to add this to Emacs if there's a need.