version-clj

version-clj is a Clojure & ClojureScript library for analysis and comparison of artifact version numbers. It originated as a comparison mechanism in lein-ancient, a plugin to detect outdated dependencies in your packages.

Usage

(require '[version-clj.core :as v])

Comparison

(v/older? "1.0.0-alpha" "1.0.0")     ;; => true
(v/newer? "1.0.0-rc2" "1.0.0-rc1")   ;; => true
(v/version-compare "1.0.0" "0.9.0")  ;; => 1

Sorting

(v/version-sort ["1.0.0-alpha", "1.0.0", "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT", "0.9.0-RC1"])
;; => ("0.9.0-RC1" "1.0.0-alpha" "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" "1.0.0")

Analysis

(v/parse "1.0.0-rc-snapshot")
;; => {:version [(1 0 0) ("rc" "snapshot")],
;;     :qualifiers #{"rc" "snapshot"},
;;     :snapshot? true,
;;     :qualified? true}

(v/snapshot? "1.0.0")
;; => false

(v/qualified? "1.0.0-rc")
;; => true

Comparison Rules

Version seqs are compared by extending them to the same length (using zero/nil) followed by an element-wise comparison.

Integers are compared numerically.
Strings are compared using a table of well-known qualifiers or lexicographically.
A well-known qualifier is newer than an unknown one.
Subsequences are compared like they represent versions of their own.
An integer is newer than a string.

The order of well-known qualifiers is case-insensitive and given as:

  "alpha"     == "a"
< "beta"      == "b"
< "milestone" == "m"
< "rc"        == "cr"
< "snapshot"
< "final"     == "stable" == ""

Have a look at the respective unit tests to see the comparison mechanism in action.

License

MIT License

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