Improve version sorting and inherit dates

[socram8888]

As a previous step to #883, this severely improves version sorting and updates the rawDate on the parent element. Previous sorting (https://api.specref.org/bibrefs?refs=ECMASCRIPT):

{
  "ECMASCRIPT": {
    "title": "ECMAScript Language Specification",
    "href": "https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/",
    "publisher": "Ecma International",
    "versions": [
      "ECMASCRIPT-9.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-8.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-7.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-60",
      "ECMASCRIPT-6.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-51",
      "ECMASCRIPT-5.1",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2025",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2024",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2023",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2022",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2021",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2020",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2019",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2018",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2017",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2016",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2015",
      "ECMASCRIPT-16.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-15.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-14.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-13.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-12.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-11.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-10.0"
    ],
    "repository": "https://github.com/tc39/ecma262",
    "id": "ECMASCRIPT"
  }
}

New sorting:

{
  "ECMASCRIPT": {
    "title": "ECMAScript Language Specification",
    "href": "https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/",
    "publisher": "Ecma International",
    "versions": [
      "ECMASCRIPT-2025",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2024",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2023",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2022",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2021",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2020",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2019",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2018",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2017",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2016",
      "ECMASCRIPT-2015",
      "ECMASCRIPT-60",
      "ECMASCRIPT-51",
      "ECMASCRIPT-16.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-15.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-14.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-13.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-12.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-11.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-10.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-9.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-8.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-7.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-6.0",
      "ECMASCRIPT-5.1"
    ],
    "repository": "https://github.com/tc39/ecma262",
    "id": "ECMASCRIPT"
  }
}

An old, redundant and buggy unused version has been also dropped for cleanup.

[tobie]

Thanks for this PR. Could you please explain what problem it is trying to solve?

[socram8888]

#883 (comment) this

[tobie]

Got it. Could we just focus on finding the newest date in that case rather than sorting the sub references?

[socram8888]

Simply max(rawDate)? Or max(rawDate) in addition to sorting? For the record, the sorting is already happening on cleanupRefs, just badly by comparing ASCII so it leaves 9 > 11. El 26 de septiembre de 2025 17:57:42 CEST, Tobie Langel ***@***.***> escribió:

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[tobie]

Yeah. I believe the sorting was to avoid generating diffs.