Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> writes:
> > > (2) i think you do need to cope with the _ALPHA and _BETA issue.
> > 
> > I had a think about this and couldn't come up with anything.  Parsing
> > __NetBSD_Version__ and then looking for ALPHA, BETA, whatever crossed my
> > mind, but I thought it'd be better to do it either one way or the other.
> > Unfortunately I didn't come up with a representation that fits the
> > current setup.
> > 
> > Hmm, maybe we can use those two `0's at the end - how does:
> > 
> > 	MMmmrrppRl
> > 
> > sound, where 'R' is 0 for pre-release and '1' for released, and 'l'
> > is the level - '0' for alpha, '1' for beta, and so on.  This still
> > satifies 1.4 (104000010) > 1.4BETA (104000002).
> 
> this seems reasonable to me.

Cool, I'll knock something together that does this then.

Simon.