Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com>: > Could you do <version>~<tick> , that way it would lexically sort such that > 0.9.6~499 is before 0.9.6 It's now "+", not "~", but ought to have the same property. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>