constraint comparison

[edwin-Marrima]

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[radeksimko]

Hello @edwin-Marrima
Could you describe a use case for comparing constraints?
Is this just for displaying constraints somewhere in a UI?

I mean, it's clear how to sort versions but how could we sort the operators? That looks like a very subjective and context-dependent problem. I can see you attempted to do that but it seems a bit arbitrary to decide that one operator is "less" than the other.

What might be a reasonable compromise is to expose the parsed version via a hypothetical Version() method of a Constraint, what do you think about that?