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1. Zach Leatherman 21 min later

   https://fosstodon.org/@webpro/109717768907972230 has informed me that comparing two distinct pre-release tags is… alphabetic.

   I don’t agree with this but at least I understand it now 😅

   1. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 25 min later

      @zachleat Time to use xray, yankee, zulu as early release stages.

      1. Zach Leatherman 50 min later

         @AlesandroOrtiz haha—I like this “make it work” attitude

         1. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 1 hr later

            @zachleat It's either that or throwing a wrench at ~the cloud~ in frustration, which would just hit me back on the way down.

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   3. Lucie 40 min later

      @zachleat Time for some good old `.replace("canary", "acanary")`

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @lihbr are you watching me code 😅

      2. Snugug 1 hr later

         @lihbr @zachleat I read that as "arcane" and I'm totally OK with that too

   4. tigersway 🇫🇷 🇹🇭 15 hr later

      @zachleat I've read somewhere that canary is supposed to be a totally different chanel than alpha/beta... I guess it's right... Sorry, true!

      1. Zach Leatherman 18 hr later

         @tigersway yeah the channel can be @canary but the *version* should be `-alpha.`. I think I will use that convention moving forward!

2. Doug Parker 🕸️ 36 min later

   @zachleat I've made the same mistake. I still argue prereleases should be incomparable. The semantics of a prerelease should not be mixed with it's alphabetical ordering.

   https://tweets.dwac.dev/1486031288872030209/
   https://tweets.dwac.dev/1486106892401213440/

   1. Zach Leatherman 45 min later

      @develwithoutacause yeah, that’s what I expected too! That the pre-release tags would be distinct and both would return `false`

      also 😍 to see you linking to your tweetback archive!

      1. Doug Parker 🕸️ 1 hr later

         @zachleat I finally suspended the Twitter account so that's what I'm using. 😍 that you helped make it happen 😅. I don't know that I would have had the follow-through to build it from scratch.