From f6f665784232a34496b0c943b679aa27d04b0f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeroendedauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:28:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [ticket/12903] Remove dead
 phpbb\extension\metadata_manager::_validate_version

PHPBB3-12903
---
 phpBB/phpbb/extension/metadata_manager.php | 21 ---------------------
 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/extension/metadata_manager.php b/phpBB/phpbb/extension/metadata_manager.php
index 1051021ea7..edca8ee1af 100644
--- a/phpBB/phpbb/extension/metadata_manager.php
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/extension/metadata_manager.php
@@ -329,27 +329,6 @@ class metadata_manager
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	* Version validation helper
-	*
-	* @param string $string The string for comparing to a version
-	* @param string $current_version The version to compare to
-	* @return bool True/False if meets version requirements
-	*/
-	private function _validate_version($string, $current_version)
-	{
-		// Allow them to specify their own comparison operator (ex: <3.1.2, >=3.1.0)
-		$comparison_matches = false;
-		preg_match('#[=<>]+#', $string, $comparison_matches);
-
-		if (!empty($comparison_matches))
-		{
-			return version_compare($current_version, str_replace(array($comparison_matches[0], ' '), '', $string), $comparison_matches[0]);
-		}
-
-		return version_compare($current_version, $string, '>=');
-	}
-
 	/**
 	* Outputs the metadata into the template
 	*