Last night, I gave a talk at the Addons Meetup at Threadless HQ in Chicago on the new search engine powering addons.mozilla.org. I’ll recap the technical portion of the talk and give a bit more details.
First, I’d like to thank Harper and Threadless. It was a great location in the greatest city in [...]
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Versioning is quite difficult to deal with. Versions are nearly-numbers, but you can’t quite sort them using standard numerical algorithms.
While the following is true:
1.1 < 1.2
The following is also true:
1.2 < 1.18 < 1.20
The “.” is not a decimal point but a separator.
Mozilla uses a modestly complicated versioning system that involves stars, plusses, and [...]
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