setup.ini has multiple "prev" entries ... Why?

[Houder]

On 2017-11-06 15:20, Jon Turney wrote:
[snip]

> I try to keep [1] accurate and up-to-date, but the 'specification' is
> really "what setup accepts" :(
> 
> Currently, the ordering requirements are:
> 
> 1) The version to be installed when test versions are selected (the
> highest test, unless one is explicitly specified in override.hint) is
> the last [test] section
> 
> 2) [curr] is first
> 
> But since both these things are to work around historical setup
> limitations, I don't think they merit mention in [1], and might not be
> the case in a future when we no longer care about setup versions old
> enough to need them.
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.ini.html

But if the order of the versions is to be based _solely_ on "version",
which until now was merely an identifier (like "aap", "noot", "mies"),
that is without any order, then both semantics and syntax of "version"
must be rigidly defined in [1] ...

... if you want it to be a specification for setup.ini.

Regards,

Henri

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