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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 03:11 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400 |
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>> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> Hierarchy would be the following |
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>>> snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... |
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>> And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself _snapshot is |
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>> something universal so it doesn't really fit anywhere in the chain. |
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> Yes, order wise snapshots might be quite confusing. Not sure if a well |
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> defined definition would clear that up. |
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>> Similar for _build, it usually runs parallel to normal versioning (a |
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>> release also has a build number). |
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> That's more something specific to say glassfish where builds are weekly |
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> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Promoted_binary_builds |
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> With major ones being milestones, similar to Netbeans. |
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> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Milestone_binary_builds |
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> Glassfish alone is likely to comprise of a guestimated ~20 or so |
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> packages. It's Sun's formerly closed source J2EE stack for the most |
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> part. Very possible could be more, formerly know as WSDP |
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> http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp |
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>> At best older |
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>> portage versions would ignore ebuilds using these new suffixes |
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>> resulting in confused users, worst case stuff starts breaking. |
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>> If you want to pursue this you should get some numbers of how many |
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>> packages could actually make use of these new features, it simply isn't |
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>> worth thinking about it for just a handful of packages. |
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Bleh; you have to break it at one point anyhow; you added the cvs |
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suffix, no? :) |
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