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On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:54:59 +0800 |
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konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10? That's clearly illegal to |
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> what most versioning schemes packages follow including the semantic |
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> versioning (http://semver.org/). |
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Semantic versioning is a new fad. Certain upstreams still think that |
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5.10 is a lower version that 5.2. Perl used to be notorious for doing |
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this, but they've partially changed in some places but not others. |
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The rules are a mess because they need to a reasonable job of dealing |
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with all the crazy. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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