From 345343647aea77f6a4a13272ce353fded76cee54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 07:01:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] attempt SortByAge(). not sure if it works.

---
 currentVersions.go | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 repo.new.go        |  1 +
 repo.proto         |  1 +
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/currentVersions.go b/currentVersions.go
index 4e9d843..4fc7814 100644
--- a/currentVersions.go
+++ b/currentVersions.go
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ package gitpb
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 	"unicode"
 
 	"go.wit.com/log"
@@ -213,3 +215,29 @@ func trimNonNumericFromStart(s string) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
+
+func (all *GitTags) SortByAge() *GitTagIterator {
+	packs := all.selectAllGitTag()
+
+	sort.Sort(GitTagAge(packs))
+
+	iterator := NewGitTagIterator(packs)
+	return iterator
+}
+
+type GitTagAge []*GitTag
+
+func (a GitTagAge) Len() int { return len(a) }
+
+// sorts in ? order
+func (a GitTagAge) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	if time.Since(a[i].Authordate.AsTime()) > time.Since(a[j].Authordate.AsTime()) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+func (a GitTagAge) Swap(i, j int) { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
+
+func (repo *Repo) SetTargetVersion(target string) {
+	repo.TargetVersion = target
+}
diff --git a/repo.new.go b/repo.new.go
index 5d774fe..dc7f17e 100644
--- a/repo.new.go
+++ b/repo.new.go
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ func (repo *Repo) isPrimativeGoMod() (bool, error) {
 
 		}
 	}
+	repo.GoPrimitive = true
 	return true, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/repo.proto b/repo.proto
index c966ab9..ec3b6fb 100644
--- a/repo.proto
+++ b/repo.proto
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ message Repo {						// `autogenpb:marshal`
 	google.protobuf.Timestamp lastGoDep	= 13;	// last time go.sum was processed
 	bool dirty		= 14;			// if git says things have been changed
 	GoDeps	published	= 15;			// the last published go.mod/go.sum
+	string targetVersion	= 16; 			// useful during the package release process
 }
 
 message Repos {				// `autogenpb:marshal`