From 8d4b5151b5e15109c0d9cd908dce808ad4db35f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Granick <jgranick@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 11:51:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for 'haxelib path lib:ver' using git, hg, etc
 directories

---
 tools/haxelib/client/Main.hx | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/haxelib/client/Main.hx b/tools/haxelib/client/Main.hx
index 259c0ff8c..4d3a43680 100644
--- a/tools/haxelib/client/Main.hx
+++ b/tools/haxelib/client/Main.hx
@@ -1086,16 +1086,23 @@ class Main {
 				continue;
 			v = Data.unsafe(v);
 			var semver = try SemVer.ofString(v) catch (_:Dynamic) null;
+			if ( semver == null ) {
+				var json = try File.getContent(dir+"/"+v+"/"+Data.JSON) catch( e : Dynamic ) null;
+				if ( json != null ) {
+					var inf = Data.readData(json, false);
+					semver = try SemVer.ofString(inf.version) catch (_:Dynamic) null;
+				}
+			}
 			if (semver != null && matchVersion(version, semver))
-				matches.push(semver);
+				matches.push({ dir: v, ver: semver });
 		}
-		var best = null;
+		var best:Dynamic = null;
 		for( match in matches ) {
-			if (best == null || match > best) {
+			if (best == null || match.ver > best.ver) {
 				best = match;
 			}
 		}
-		return if (best != null) dir + "/" + Data.safe(best) else null;
+		return if (best != null) dir + "/" + Data.safe(best.dir) else null;
 	}
 
 	function list() {