[wix-devs] 6210 - Burn engine should handle non-QWORD versions

[Rob Mensching]

Very interesting.  "@#$%^&*" is not valid SemVer nor 4-dotted.

Should there be some indication when parsing that the parsed thing isn't at all recognized as a version?
Is there a use case for arbitrary strings to be treated as "v0-[arbitrarystring]" in version comparisons?


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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Sean Hall via wix-devs
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] 6210 - Burn engine should handle non-QWORD versions

It would be parsed to

major - 0
minor - 0
patch - 0
revision - 0
release labels - [] (empty array)
metadata - "@#$%^&*"

"v0" or "0" or "" are all parsed to

major - 0
minor - 0
patch - 0
revision - 0
release labels - [] (empty array)
metadata - "" (empty string)

"@#$%^&*" would be greater than "v0"