latest strategy question

[Max Reider <an...@hotmail.com>]

I want to have a latest strategy that sorts versions as follows from latest to earliest:
1. 2.0
2. 2.0-DEV
3. 2.0-DEV-20101031101932 (later timestamp)
4. 2.0-DEV-20100920120000 (earlier timestamp)

Will this work out of the box, or will I need to define a custom latest strategy to make this work, or will I need to tweak the built-in latest-revision in some way? And if someone can point me to some passage in the documentation that would have obviated my question had I been aware of it, that would be great. 		 	   		  

RE: latest strategy question

[Max Reider <an...@hotmail.com>]

Geoff, I've pored over that page a number of times. And to me, it is not at all obvious that latest-revision will do what I want it to do:
1. While "dev" is assigned "-1", will that also be applied to "DEV" (case-insensitive) and "-DEV" with a hyphen prefix?
2. Where does it say anything about how to negotiate between "-DEV" and "-DEV-timestamp"?

I'm afraid that eventually I will just need to write an integration test and ascertain this for myself--which is a shame because having to do so presents a barrier to entry. 

> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:28:43 +1300
> Subject: Re: latest strategy question
> From: g.clitheroe@gmail.com
> To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org
> 
> Look like it should just work (to me)
> 
> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html
> 
> <http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html>
> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Max Reider <an...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I want to have a latest strategy that sorts versions as follows from latest
> > to earliest:
> > 1. 2.0
> > 2. 2.0-DEV
> > 3. 2.0-DEV-20101031101932 (later timestamp)
> > 4. 2.0-DEV-20100920120000 (earlier timestamp)
> >
> > Will this work out of the box, or will I need to define a custom latest
> > strategy to make this work, or will I need to tweak the built-in
> > latest-revision in some way? And if someone can point me to some passage in
> > the documentation that would have obviated my question had I been aware of
> > it, that would be great.
 		 	   		  

Re: latest strategy question

[Geoff Clitheroe <g....@gmail.com>]

Look like it should just work (to me)

http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html

<http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/settings/latest-strategies.html>

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Max Reider <an...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I want to have a latest strategy that sorts versions as follows from latest
> to earliest:
> 1. 2.0
> 2. 2.0-DEV
> 3. 2.0-DEV-20101031101932 (later timestamp)
> 4. 2.0-DEV-20100920120000 (earlier timestamp)
>
> Will this work out of the box, or will I need to define a custom latest
> strategy to make this work, or will I need to tweak the built-in
> latest-revision in some way? And if someone can point me to some passage in
> the documentation that would have obviated my question had I been aware of
> it, that would be great.