diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 45fc86c8..dba61660 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-02-05 Fatih Aşıcı <fatih@pardus.org.tr>
+		* pisi/version.py (compare): Allow comparing Version objects
+		with strings.
+
 2010-02-04 Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
 		* pisi/pxml/autoxml.py (format): Some optional elements may be None
 		during formatting, handle those situations. We still have a formatting
diff --git a/pisi/version.py b/pisi/version.py
index f851bd91..da1deae7 100644
--- a/pisi/version.py
+++ b/pisi/version.py
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ class Version:
         not we use the comparison operator. And we iterate to the left.
         The result is, 0 if two are equal, -1 if self < rhs, and +1
         if self>rhs"""
+
+        if isinstance(ver, basestring):
+            ver = pisi.version.Version(ver)
+
         lhs = self.comps
         rhs = ver.comps
         # pad the short version string with zeros