Is there a standard idiom for comparing version numbers? I can't just use a straight String compareTo because I don't know yet what the maximum number of point releases there will be. I need to compare the versions and have the following hold true: 1.0 < 1.1 1.0.1 < 1.1 1.9 < 1.10
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