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version-ranges
- Aug 18, 2026 What a Version Range Selects: The Interval Algebra Behind Caret and Tilde How comparators, disjunction, and prerelease exclusion turn a version constraint into a concrete set of versions, and where the range language stops describing compatibility at all. software engineering
- Aug 12, 2024 Version Precedence and the Semantics of Range Operators How version strings are ordered, why caret and tilde ranges expand the way they do, and where precedence rules diverge between ecosystems badly enough to change an install. language runtimes
- Sep 27, 2023 Version Ranges as Sets of Versions How a constraint such as ^1.2.3 becomes an explicit set of admissible versions, how two constraints intersect, and why prerelease rules stop that set from being an interval. developer tools