AcornSSL date/version number again

Installer can only cope with 2 digits after the decimal point and it only compares module version numbers and ignores any dates, so no SysMerge wouldn’t work because it would see both modules as being 1.05 and skip updating.
And if you have anything other than a space after those 2 digits then it will return an error, so having 1.0501 or 1.05a will also cause it to not do any update either.

Installer can only cope with 2 digits after the decimal point and it only compares module version numbers and ignores any dates,

Don’t know where you got that idea from…

https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/apache/RiscOS/Sources/SystemRes/Configure2/Installer/c/Dispatch?rev=1.4#l328

Sorry, didn’t make it clear – I wasn’t referring to the timestamp of the file, I was referring to the date in the module help string, which could have been used to see it was a newer module if the version number hadn’t changed. Not that I’m recommending doing that, I agree with bumping the module version. But then I guess that’s what Installer is doing by checking the timestamp of the file.
The code for reading the module version is in:

https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/apache/RiscOS/Sources/SystemRes/Configure2/Installer/c/Modver?rev=1.1.1.1

From the original message:

but they’re both September 2019… I don’t need to update?

The version number doesn’t change. Neither does the embedded date. File stamp is all that remains to tell one from another programmatically.

Please decode this.

RISC OS Developments acquired Castle Technology and with it the RISC OS Operating System. The best bits of the dead version will be brought into the ROOL version.

I may be using a wider interpretation of “recent” than you were expecting.

I’m even more confused now :)

Wasn’t (virtually) all of Castle’s stuff already in the ROOL version?

The dead branch is the ROL version. All the rights to RISC OS are now owned by one company. The old schism is dead in principle, though the practical reunification will take some time.