[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Remove version sort option. Now uses version sort by default and there' s no way to change it :)

Edward Wang edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Tue Feb 7 21:18:17 CET 2012


On 12-02-07 11:19 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> This order sucks IMHO. It does not respect collation rules at all. This is a
> regression back to strcmp()-like sorting. This may be intuitive for a
> computer, but this is totally counter-intuitive to humans:
>
> Good / strcoll():
> abc  Abc  àbc  Àbc  acb  Acb  àcb  Àcb
>
> Bad / strcmp() and strverscmp():
> Abc  Acb  abc  acb  Àbc  Àcb  àbc  àcb
So then could someone revert dionoea's removal of the option and bring 
it back? I did not expect we would drop down to such a level as to start 
dumbing down VLC.

Thanks,
     Edward Wang



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