commit d3fa832ca27fa193be1c476182be31597d2ddb70
Author: yafox <yafox@box>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 21:11:21 2020 +0000

    initial commit

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright 2020 "yafox"
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
+the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
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diff --git a/README b/README
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+vercmp-bare-formats
+===================
+
+basic formats for use with `vercmp`.  as simple as it gets.
diff --git a/default-after-dash.sh b/default-after-dash.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. "$VERCMPROOT/format/default.sh" 
+
+comparever_default_after_dash() {
+    comparever_default "$(echo "$1" | cut -d- -f2)" "$(echo "$2" | cut -d- -f2)"
+}
+comparever() { comparever_default_after_dash $@; }
diff --git a/default-with-dotless-patch.sh b/default-with-dotless-patch.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. "$VERCMPROOT/format/default.sh" 
+
+comparever_dotless_patch() {
+    # a semver that sometimes uses letters as an additional patch field without
+    # bothering to add a dot.
+    comparever_default \
+        "$(echo "$1" | sed 's/\([a-z]\+[0-9a-z]*\)$/.\1/')" \
+        "$(echo "$2" | sed 's/\([a-z]\+[0-9a-z]*\)$/.\1/')"
+}
+comparever() { comparever_dotless_patch $@; }
diff --git a/default-with-underscores.sh b/default-with-underscores.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. "$VERCMPROOT/format/default.sh" 
+
+comparever_default_with_underscores() {
+    comparever_default "$(echo "$1" | tr '_' '.')" "$(echo "$2" | tr '_' '.')"
+}
+comparever() { comparever_default_with_underscores $@; }
diff --git a/default-without-dashed-prerelease.sh b/default-without-dashed-prerelease.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+. "$VERCMPROOT/format/default.sh" 
+
+comparever_gdb() {
+    # a semver that eschews using a dash before prerelease versions.
+    comparever_default "$(echo "$1" | sed 's/\([a-z]\+[0-9a-z]*\)$/-\1/i')" \
+                       "$(echo "$2" | sed 's/\([a-z]\+[0-9a-z]*\)$/-\1/i')"
+}
+comparever() { comparever_gdb $@; }
diff --git a/default.sh b/default.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+# accepts two semantic-ish versions and echoes a character representing the
+# relationship between the two.
+# "semantic-ish" means here "a superset of semantic versioning."  all correctly
+# constructed semantic versions should compare in accordance with version 2.0 of
+# the semver.org spec.  versions that do not conform to the spec may also
+# compare correctly.  the primary difference is that there is no limitation on
+# the number of version fields.
+comparever() { comparever_default $@; }
+
+# a split definition allows other formats to use this function to define their
+# own comparever functions if they wish.
+comparever_default() {
+    v1="$1"
+    v2="$2"
+
+    # strip any trailing meta tags
+    v1="${v1%+*}"
+    v2="${v2%+*}"
+
+    # equal?
+    [ "$v1" != "$v2" ] || { echo "=" && return 0; }
+
+    # strip leading characters that match.
+    while [ "$(echo "$v1" | cut -c1)" = "$(echo "$v2" | cut -c1)" ]; do
+        v1="$(echo "$v1" | cut -c2-)"
+        v2="$(echo "$v2" | cut -c2-)"
+    done
+    v1head="$(echo "$v1" | cut -c1)"
+    v2head="$(echo "$v2" | cut -c1)"
+
+    # if the difference is a prerelease tag, the prerelease is lesser.
+    case "$v1head" in -) echo '<' && return 0;; esac
+    case "$v2head" in -) echo '>' && return 0;; esac
+
+    # otherwise, if one is a prefix of the other, the other is greater.
+    [ -n "$v1" ] || { echo '<' && return 0; }
+    [ -n "$v2" ] || { echo '>' && return 0; }
+
+    # otherwise, if one starts with a dot, the other is the greater.
+    case "$v1head" in .) echo '<' && return 0;; esac
+    case "$v2head" in .) echo '>' && return 0;; esac
+
+    # strip any remaining version fields
+    v1="$(echo "$v1" | sed s/\\..*\$//)"
+    v2="$(echo "$v2" | sed s/\\..*\$//)"
+
+    # if the version tails are numeric, compare numerically.  (ignore prerelease
+    # tags.) otherwise, compare lexically.
+    if (echo "${v1%-*}${v2%-*}" | grep -q "^[0-9]\+\$"); then
+        [ "$(echo "${v1%-*}")" -gt "$(echo "${v2%-*}")" ] \
+        && echo ">" \
+        || echo "<"
+
+    else
+        # v1 and v2 contain only the differences.  using 'cut' and tabs here to
+        # perform a lexical sort on the differences and retrieve the original
+        # string associated with the greater of the two remainders.
+        greater=$(printf "%s\t%s\n%s\t%s" "$v1" "$1" "$v2" "$2" \
+                 | sort | tail -n1 | cut -f2)
+
+        [ "$greater" = "$1" ] && echo ">" || echo "<"
+    fi
+}