Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:57:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>, Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: discussion on package-version numbers... (PR 56961) Message-ID: <p0602040bbcc04f36c2aa@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040506190729.GD1777@madman.celabo.org> References: <200404160124.i3G1OlUd067575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040416163635.GB49780@madman.celabo.org> <4080151C.1070200@fillmore-labs.com> <20040416173857.GA50670@madman.celabo.org> <20040416174418.GC50670@madman.celabo.org> <40802354.3030202@fillmore-labs.com> <20040417152242.GA5543@madman.celabo.org> <20040506190729.GD1777@madman.celabo.org>
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At 2:07 PM -0500 5/6/04, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:22:42AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > I *would* like to see the package versioning rules made more clear > > and explicit, and perhaps even see some reform. However, making > > up a new special case for `pl' seems right out. > > > > Has much discussion over PR 56961 taken place anywhere? I like > > it as a starting point. > >Is anyone besides Oliver and myself interested in package version >number reform? I'd really like to produce a `better' set of rules >for the handbook that eliminates some of the edge cases, and then >re-version the relatively few ports that don't fit the rules. > >Oliver's PR is as good a starting point as any that I've seen--- it >goes further than our current rules and only conflicts with them in >one case. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56961 I have thought from time-to-time that the version-numbering scheme seems a bit hard to follow for some ports. I don't know if the PR does exactly what I want. The rule of: - characters !~ [a-zA-z0-9.] are treated as separators (1.0+2003.09.16 = 1.0.2003.09.16). This may not be what you expect: 1.0.1+2003.09.16 < 1.0+2003.09.16 seems like it would cause confusion, for instance. I don't know exactly what would be a better tactic, though. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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