Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 13:07:55 +0100 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@qxnitro.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r385864 - head/security/vuxml Message-ID: <CAC8HS2EgwR6nwBH-mpgyUhzA5wOA6C-QGZDJALMFd2ZN6gQDDg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55510974.1090703@delphij.net> References: <201505090820.t498Kj6Q040594@svn.freebsd.org> <CAC8HS2EgyUuYP6Aumd6L%2Bre__SGH2wPwbHoJVJ_mR9dHhoRk-w@mail.gmail.com> <5550F113.1090306@delphij.net> <DC76BD292E0930458973D2DD@ogg.in.absolight.net> <55510974.1090703@delphij.net>
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On 11 May 2015 at 20:56, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > Well, what I have overlooked is that * means "infinitely small" > (arguably, * is a poor symbol for that meaning, but it was in the > documentations for quite some time), not "any" (as one would expect) > in the ports' version numbering system. > > In our system: > > * < 0 > * < a1 > * < r1 > > While, e.g.: > > a1 < 0 > a1 < r1 > r1 < 0 > > I also attempted some alternatives, but they failed: > > 2.* < 2.a1 > 2 > 2.a1 > 2 = 2.0 > > Basically, 0 have the same meaning of what we expect in normal > numbering system, while we added additional concept like a, r (both < > 0), and in order to catch these new concepts, we invented * and lived > with that for a decade. > > I don't see a easy solution here, unfortunately: we can't simply > remove the a, r concepts because some software vendors don't issue > formal release for very long time, and we really need some symbols to > represent <0 numbers. I agree it can certainly be confusing, but fixing probably worse right now... and yes, software developers use very interesting versioning schemes... Perhaps a workaround can be for future entries to suggest discourage use of "*", unless really needed, to reduce confusion? I suspect a number of the old entries could work with .0, but going back now and finding out is a lot of not very useful work. -- Simon L. B. Nielsen
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