Rust library: version-compare

A Rust library to easily compare version numbers, and test them against various comparison operators.

Documentation

Comparing version numbers is hard. Especially when version numbers get really complex, or when their formatting differs.

This library helps you to easily compare any kind of version number with a single code-statement. Two version numbers can be compared to each other, to get a relevant comparison operator (<, ==, >), or version numbers can be tested against any given comparison operator.

Along with version comparison, the library also features other useful tools.
For example: version numbers can be parsed to inspect a version number by it's bare numeric or text based parts.

Inspired by PHPs version_compare().

Note: This library is still a work in progress. See the list below for a list of currently available and future features.

Features

• Compare two version numbers, get: <, == or >.
• Compare two version numbers against any comparison operator.
• Parse complex version numbers.
• Static, single-statement methods available.

The following features will be added in a later version: * Version manifest, to specify detailed version number constraints. * Batch comparisons.

Example

This library is very easy to use. Here's a basic usage example:

Cargo.toml: toml [dependencies] version-compare = "0.0.4"

main.rs: ```rust extern crate version_compare;

use version_compare::{CompOp, Version, VersionCompare};

fn main() { // Define some version numbers let a = "1.2"; let b = "1.5.1";

// The following comparison operators are used:
// - CompOp::Eq -> Equal
// - CompOp::Ne -> Not equal
// - CompOp::Lt -> Less than
// - CompOp::Le -> Less than or equal
// - CompOp::Ge -> Greater than or equal
// - CompOp::Gt -> Greater than

// Easily compare
VersionCompare::compare(&a, &b); // -> CompOp::Lt
VersionCompare::compare_to(&a, &b, &CompOp::Le); // -> true
VersionCompare::compare_to(&a, &b, &CompOp::Gt); // -> false

// Version string parsing
let a_ver = Version::from(a).unwrap();
let b_ver = Version::from(b).unwrap();

// Directly compare versions
let _ = a_ver < b_ver; // -> true
let _ = a_ver <= b_ver; // -> true
let _ = a_ver > b_ver; // -> false
let _ = a_ver != b_ver; // -> false
a_ver.compare(&b_ver); // -> CompOp::Lt
b_ver.compare(&a_ver); // -> CompOp::Gt
a_ver.compare_to(&b_ver, &CompOp::Lt); // -> true

// Match
match a_ver.compare(&b_ver) {
    CompOp::Lt => println!("Version a is less than b"),
    CompOp::Eq => println!("Version a is equal to b"),
    CompOp::Gt => println!("Version a is greater than b"),
    _ => panic!("This is never reached")
}

} ```

Check out the examples directory for more complete examples.

Builds

This library is automatically build and tested for each commit using CI services.

|Service|Branch|Build Status| | |---:|:---|:---:|:---| |Travis CI|master||View Status| |Travis CI|last commit||View Status|

License

This project is released under the GNU GPL-3.0 license. Check out the LICENSE file for more information.