[GEODE-8274] Improve readability of Version comparisons

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Component/s: serialization
• Assignee: Jacob Barrett
• Reporter: Jacob Barrett
• Created: 17/Jun/20 19:28
• Updated: 03/Sep/21 02:22
• Resolved: 18/Jun/20 22:40

Description

Currently Version comparisons are done with Version.compareTo(Version) <=> 0 operations. It is difficult to reason with some of the combinations to understand if we are looking for newer or older versions. Convert to some natural language style like Version.isNewerThan(Version). 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5266