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On Saturday 16 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Have a look at every package using a MY_PV style thing. Group those |
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> into "upstream's doing something dumb" and "upstream's being sensible |
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> but our arbitrary restrictions on rules means we can't follow what |
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> they do". |
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I like the fact that our versioning rules are a fixed subset of the sum |
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of all our upstream's versioning rules. It provides a more consistent |
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user experience. |
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As a user, I know it's always "_rc" and never "-rc". Gentoo developers |
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take care of mapping all upstream versions onto an easy-to-remember set |
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of ebuild versions. |
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The file extension change makes changing versioning rules possible. From |
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a developer PoV, this might relieve me from fiddling with MY_PV. |
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However, I have to take care of additional fuzz with file extensions |
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(As pointed out by klausman). |
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Bottom line: I see no gain for me as a developer, and a loss of |
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consistency for users. |
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Robert |
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