[GitHub] [maven] michael-o commented on a diff in pull request #930: [MNG-7644] Fix version comparison ( .X1 < -X2 for any string qualifier x ), 3.8.x branch

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michael-o commented on code in PR #930:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/930#discussion_r1054191144


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maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java:
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@@ -337,4 +337,20 @@ public void testReuse()
 
         assertEquals( "reused instance should be equivalent to new instance", c1, c2 );
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Test <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7644">MNG-7644</a> edge cases
+     * 1.0.0.RC1 < 1.0.0-RC2
+     */
+    public void testMng7644()
+    {
+        for ( String x : new String[]{ "alpha", "a", "beta", "b", "milestone", "m", "RC" } ) {

Review Comment:
   You should add at least two arbitrary one as well.



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maven-artifact/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersion.java:
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@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@
  *     </ul>
  *     Unknown qualifiers are considered after known qualifiers, with lexical order (always case insensitive),
  *   </li>
- * <li>a hyphen usually precedes a qualifier, and is always less important than something preceded with a dot.</li>
+ * <li>a hyphen usually precedes a qualifier, and is always less important than digits/number, for example
+ *   1.0.RC2 &lt; 1.0-RC3 &lt; 1.0.1 ; but prefer '1.0.0-RC1' over '1.0.0.RC1' </li>

Review Comment:
   This needs to be generalized as well.



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maven-artifact/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/versioning/ComparableVersionTest.java:
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@@ -337,4 +337,20 @@ public void testReuse()
 
         assertEquals( "reused instance should be equivalent to new instance", c1, c2 );
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Test <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7644">MNG-7644</a> edge cases
+     * 1.0.0.RC1 < 1.0.0-RC2

Review Comment:
   This needs to be generalized as well.



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