[wp-testers] Theme Upload Bug on WordPress.org

Andy Warburton andy at stinkyink.com
Fri Sep 16 09:31:10 UTC 2011


That makes sense.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au>wrote:

> That sounds like the expected behaviour to me, You're reading it as a
> decimal, whereas, WordPress is reading it as a version string.
> 0.75 vs 0.8 - decimal
> 0.75 vs 0.08 - how version strings work in PHP
>
> If in future you want a version between 0.7 and 0.8, you'd be best
> using 0.7.1 or 0.7.5 - the format is major.minor.patch-release that
> format will work how you expect :)
>
> D
>
> On 16 September 2011 17:45, Andy Warburton <andy at stinkyink.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Sorry if this is the wrong list, I couldn't find one that was totally
> > appropriate.
> >
> > Yesterday I was uploading a theme to WordPress.org at this URL:
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/
> >
> > The version number of my old theme was 0.75, the new theme was 0.8
> however
> > the theme uploader generated an error saying that the new version number
> had
> > to be higher than the old one. Obviously this is an error in the logic
> that
> > compares version numbers.
> >
> > To get round it, I numbered my new theme 0.80 and all was well.
> >
> > I hope someone here has the ability to let the guys at Automattic know
> about
> > this.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andy
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