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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> 3. "Extend versioning rules in an EAPI - for example, addition of the |
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>> scm suffix - GLEP54 [1] or allowing more sensible version formats like |
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>> 1-rc1, 1-alpha etc. to match upstream more closely." |
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>> Apart from GLEP54, I believe our versioning scheme works reasonably |
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>> well. I don't see any need to match upstream more closely. I'd rather |
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>> like to keep the more uniform way of handling suffixes like rc and |
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>> alpha, that we have now. |
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> Please explain why 1.2_rc3 is legal but 1.2-rc3 is not. |
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I actually like the current format in that it does *not* allow "-" in |
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the version. For example, pkg-2.3.1_rc5 makes it clear that the string |
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from "2" to "rc5" is the version. If were were to allow pkg-2.3.1-rc5, |
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this could get visually confusing (looks a bit like pkg-2.3.1-r5). In |
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this case, *less* flexibility and more strict rules serve a good |
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purpose, I think. |
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-Joe |
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