[MNG-6838] Consider build identifiers in version order comparison

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Elliotte Rusty Harold opened MNG-6838 and commented

Per semver:

 

Build metadata MAY be denoted by appending a plus sign and a series of dot separated identifiers immediately following the patch or pre-release version. Identifiers MUST comprise only ASCII alphanumerics and hyphen [0-9A-Za-z-]. Identifiers MUST NOT be empty. Build metadata MUST be ignored when determining version precedence. Thus two versions that differ only in the build metadata, have the same precedence. Examples: 1.0.0-alpha+001, 1.0.0+20130313144700, 1.0.0-beta+exp.sha.5114f85.

 

However, our spec doesn't mention the plus sign as having this special meaning. Should we do something about this? 

 

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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

semver 1.0.0 doesn't include so we could reference that instead. 

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Michael Osipov commented

I have the feeling that he version comparator is growing beyond control. I think we need a clear cut for the next major version...