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Bug #45662 'pre' token should be added to version_compare
Submitted: 2008-07-31 01:31 UTC Modified: 2008-08-01 12:02 UTC
From: geoff at darktrojan dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: PHP options/info functions
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-07-31 01:31 UTC] geoff at darktrojan dot net 
Description:
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To allow correct comparison of Mozilla versioning numbers (e.g. comparing user-agent strings), the token 'pre' should be added to version_compare. Mozilla use pre to indicate a pre-alpha release (e.g. 3.0a8pre is earlier than 3.0a8).

pre should have the same status as dev in /ext/standard/versioning.c

Reproduce code:
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echo version_compare ('3.0a8pre', '3.0a8');

Expected result:
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-1

Actual result:
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1

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 [2008-08-01 12:02 UTC] felipe@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Says the documentation:
'version_compare() compares two "PHP-standardized" version number strings.'

PHP doesn't use 'pre'.
 
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