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Version numbering scheme makes scoop miss updates in some cases

arpsmack opened this issue · 1 comments

arpsmack commented

I tried to update Intellij-IDEA today from 2021.1-211.6693.111 to 2021.1.3-211.7628.21 but scoop kept claiming I was on the latest version.

Scoop compares these version numbers by splitting on '.' and '-' and then numerically comparing each component in order, but because the newer version adds a new component, it compares less than the previous version:

Old version: [ 2021, 1, 211, 6693,  111     ]
New version: [ 2021, 1,   3,  211, 7628, 21 ]
                          ^
                          \- 211 > 3 so it stops here

This confuses scoop into thinking the newer version is actually older.

It could probably be avoided by always including the implicit .0: 2021.1.0-211.6693.111 (or I suppose by persuading scoop to change how they compare versions).