[Distutils] Common version-comparison semantics for peace love and harmony

[Tres Seaver]

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Laura Creighton wrote:
> It occurs to me that this problem would go away if we had a way to 
> ask, for any given version number, 'what was your creation date' and
> the sorting 'earlier' and 'later' by that date.  Can somebody explain
> why we aren't doing this?

Branches / tags for "stable" / "old" release lines are often created
after tags for the "current" / "testing" / "trunk" lines:  creation time
is not a relevant comparator there.


Tres.
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