Implement order by semantic version functionality in package.rb model

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Proposal

When sorting packages by version, the default order scope performs a lexicographic ordering. For certain package types (e.g. Terraform modules), the ordering is based on semantic version instead.

Ideally, this feature would be even supported at the UX level, to provide version sorting leveraging the new semantic version order where applicable (e.g. Terraform modules, npm modules). See the following projects as examples, where the new sort could be used:

• npm: https://gitlab.com/renehernandez/hello/-/packages?orderBy=version&sort=desc
• terraform module: https://gitlab.com/renehernandez/terraform-aws-eks/-/infrastructure_registry?sort=desc&orderBy=version

1. Add the above versions of a package in a gitlab registry (could be npm, terraform module, etc)
2. Go to the corresponding packages UI and sort by version to see the problem

package.rb model

Currently we have the following order scopes available:

• order_version
• order_version_desc

We would define new scopes or methods that facilitate sorting by semantic versions, e.g:

def order_semantic_version
end


def order_semantic_version_desc
end

Related links, issues and MRs

• !93145 (closed) should return the latest module version for each TF module within the group
• TF module api can return incorrect version as latest module version