Proposal: that values of the type Data.Version.Version should compare equal, by ignoring trailing zeros. Thus 1.2.0 == 1.2, rather than 1.2.0 > 1.2 Regards, Malcolm ---- New patches: [In Data.Version, make equality comparisons independent of trailing zeros. Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk**20071025161240] { hunk ./Data/Version.hs 122 - v1 == v2 = versionBranch v1 == versionBranch v2 + v1 == v2 = branchEq (versionBranch v1) (versionBranch v2) hunk ./Data/Version.hs 125 + where + branchEq :: [Int] -> [Int] -> Bool + branchEq [] [] = True + branchEq vs [] = all (==0) vs + branchEq [] vs = all (==0) vs + branchEq (v:vs) (w:ws) = v==w && branchEq vs ws hunk ./Data/Version.hs 133 - v1 `compare` v2 = versionBranch v1 `compare` versionBranch v2 - + v1 `compare` v2 = versionBranch v1 `cmpBranch` versionBranch v2 + where + cmpBranch [] [] = EQ + cmpBranch vs [] | all (==0) vs = EQ + | otherwise = GT + cmpBranch [] vs | all (==0) vs = EQ + | otherwise = LT + cmpBranch (v:vs) (w:ws) | v==w = cmpBranch vs ws + | otherwise = compare v w + } Context: [Fix doc building with Haddock 0.9 Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20071024090947 I was using a recent build here, which is more tolerant. ] [FIX #1258: document that openTempFile is secure(ish) Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20071023130928 Also change the mode from 0666 to 0600, which seems like a more sensible value and matches what C's mkstemp() does. ] [Clean up .cabal file a bit Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org>**20071022132708 specify build-type and cabal-version >= 1.2 put extra-tmp-files in the right place use os(windows) rather than os(mingw32) ] [base in 6.8 and head branch should be version 3.0 Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>**20071007150408] [FIX #1652: openTempFile should accept an empty string for the directory Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20071018122345] [clean up duplicate code Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20071017141311] [expose the value of +RTS -N as GHC.Conc.numCapabilities (see #1733) Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20071009132042] [typo Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20070917130703] [put extra-tmp-files field in the right place Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>**20070914140812] [Add more entries to boring file Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>**20070913210500] [Add a boring file Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>**20070913204641] [TAG 2007-09-13 Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>**20070913215720] Patch bundle hash: fe636959d9254b8fabd6e7ad6926a4d0b7ee0d15