Satisfy version miscomputed

[alessandro308]

Bug report

Running the function satisfy from https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/main/lib/util/semver.js results in a possible bug. Specifically:

satisfy(['^3.0.0'], '3.0.0-dev.5') === false
satisfy(['3.0.0-dev.5'], '3.0.0-dev.5') === false
satisfy(['^3.0.0'], '3.0.0') === true

but I expect 3.0.0-dev.5 to be greater than 3.0.0 so I expect the function to return true. Am I wrong?

[alexander-akait]

It is by design, because 3.0.0-dev. is not greater than 3.0.0, for example, before release you can use -alpha/-beta (and any other prerelease tags), and they are less then 3.0.0, you can find more infromation here https://github.com/npm/node-semver#prerelease-tags

^1.2.3-beta.2 := >=1.2.3-beta.2 <2.0.0-0 Note that prereleases in the 1.2.3 version will be allowed, if they are greater than or equal to beta.2. So, 1.2.3-beta.4 would be allowed, but 1.2.4-beta.2 would not, because it is a prerelease of a different [major, minor, patch] tuple.