diff --git a/lib/motion/util/version.rb b/lib/motion/util/version.rb
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+++ b/lib/motion/util/version.rb
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+module Motion; module Util
+  class Version
+    include Comparable
+
+    def initialize(version)
+      @version = version.to_s
+      unless @version =~ /^[.0-9]+$/
+        raise ArgumentError, "A version may only contain periods and digits."
+      end
+    end
+
+    def to_s
+      @version
+    end
+
+    def segments
+      @segments ||= @version.split('.').map(&:to_i)
+    end
+
+    # This is pretty much vendored straight from RubyGems, except we don’t
+    # care about string segments for our purposes.
+    #
+    # https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/81d806d818baeb5dcb6398ca631d772a003d078e/lib/rubygems/version.rb
+    #
+    def <=>(other)
+      return unless Version === other
+      return 0 if @version == other.to_s
+
+      lhsegments = segments
+      rhsegments = other.segments
+
+      lhsize = lhsegments.size
+      rhsize = rhsegments.size
+      limit  = (lhsize > rhsize ? lhsize : rhsize) - 1
+
+      i = 0
+      while i <= limit
+        lhs, rhs = lhsegments[i] || 0, rhsegments[i] || 0
+        i += 1
+        next if lhs == rhs
+        return lhs <=> rhs
+      end
+
+      return 0
+    end
+  end
+end; end
diff --git a/test/external/Rakefile b/test/external/Rakefile
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+desc "Run all tests"
+task :spec do
+  sh "bacon **/*_spec.rb"
+end
+
+task :default => :spec
diff --git a/test/external/unit/version_spec.rb b/test/external/unit/version_spec.rb
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+++ b/test/external/unit/version_spec.rb
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+require 'bacon'
+
+$:.unshift File.expand_path('../../../../lib', __FILE__)
+require 'motion/util/version'
+
+module Motion; module Util
+
+  describe Version do
+    it "raises if given a string that contains other chars than dots and digits" do
+      lambda { Version.new(' 1') }.should.raise ArgumentError
+      lambda { Version.new('1,0') }.should.raise ArgumentError
+      lambda { Version.new('1.0b1') }.should.raise ArgumentError
+    end
+
+    before do
+      @version = Version.new('10.6.1')
+    end
+
+    it "returns its segments" do
+      @version.segments.should == [10, 6, 1]
+    end
+
+    it "is comparable to other versions" do
+      @version.should == Version.new('10.6.1')
+      @version.should == Version.new('10.6.1.0')
+      @version.should <= Version.new('10.6.1.0.0')
+      @version.should >= Version.new('10.6.1.0.0.0')
+
+      @version.should > Version.new('10.6.0')
+      @version.should > Version.new('9.5.99.0')
+
+      @version.should < Version.new('10.6.1.1')
+      @version.should < Version.new('11.0.0.1')
+    end
+
+    it "returns a string representation" do
+      @version.to_s.should == '10.6.1'
+    end
+
+    it "creates a new instance from an existing instance" do
+      other = Version.new(@version)
+      other.should == @version
+      other.should.not.eql @version
+    end
+  end
+
+end; end