[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:
> I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal directories, sorts them, and grabs the last one. The problem with that is that it’s a lexical sort so if say 5.8, 5.9. and 5.10 directories exist then the sort order is
> Gnucash-5.10
> Gnucash-5.8
> Gnucash-5.9
> And the last one is 5.9. https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows/commit/317b10b7d99a4ae8281e866efc4403b9b7624320 changes it to sort them by creation date. That’s still not perfect, of course, because someone might come along and builds an earlier version by hand it will have the last time stamp. 

I asked the Lord God AI (as I'm not a powershell user) and it came up with this:

--- 8<---
# Define an array of strings with non-version related text before the version numbers
$versionStrings = @(
    'ProductA v1.2.3',
    'ProductB v1.10.0',
    'ProductC v1.3.5',
    'ProductD v2.0.0'
)

# Extract the version part using a regular expression and sort by the extracted version
$sortedVersions = $versionStrings | Sort-Object {
    if ($_ -match 'v([\d\.]+)$') {
        [version]$matches[1]
    }
}

# Display the sorted versions
$sortedVersions
--- 8<---

Don't know how right it is but if it's not right in and of itself then, maybe, it's right enough to get you most of the way there. :)


AP