I don't think the ~ is equivalent to rubygem's ~>

[aarongray]

In your readme, it says "Note: the ~ is equivalent to rubygem's ~>." I believe they are similar, but not the exact same.

For node-semver, I believe that both ~1.2 and ~1.2.0 will not work with version 1.3. But for rubygem's, ~> 1.2 will work with version 1.3 but ~> 1.2.0 will not work with version 1.3.

See here and here.

Thoughts?

[aarongray]

Anyone have any feedback on this?

[isaacs]

Yeah, the intent was to have this be "like rubygems ~>", but then people complained and campaigned for it to be changed, and I don't actually know rubygems very well, not ever having used ruby for much of anything, so I submitted to their demands, and here we are.

I think changing the semantics is overly hazardous, now that it's established. Let's just document exactly what it does, and not mention rubygems at all. Doc patch welcome, or I'll get to it eventually.

[mgol]

Is this resolved? I don't see rubygems mentioned in README.

[aarongray]

Commit 6cec0db removed the reference to rubygems, but didn't add anything to elaborate on the differences of how they behave. This issue can be closed or we could tweaks the docs to more verbosely explain the differences to minimize confusion by assumption.