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Rather then analyze the proposed solution, I'd like to |
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question the problem itself. Do we really want to provide |
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all the different intermediate development "sort of releases" |
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in our tree? |
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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> After reviewing |
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> |
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> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules |
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> |
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> |
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> I still seem to be having to finagle version names for some packages. At |
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> the moment it would be nice if we also had the following suffixes |
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> available |
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> |
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> _dev |
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> Apache upstream, specifically Tomcat/mod_jk tends to do developer |
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> snapshots that they then host out of developer space. People do fetch |
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> bins and source from there for testing. It's kinda pre-release, so I |
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> have been using _pre where I would use _dev, but _pre does not make much |
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> sense. |
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> |
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> _build |
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> Other packages seem to do constant builds (weekly) of the same version. |
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> For example Glassfish (Sun's FOSS J2EE stuff). It's sources are v2-b39. |
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> So would be nice to be able to do like glassfish-servlet-api-2_build39 |
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> _snapshot |
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> This one is kinda universal in it's name/implication. Would be for any |
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> sort of upstream snapshot release, that might not be versioned as such. |
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> Short of the name snapshot being some where. |
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> The above would then follow the rest of the normal schema, where in they |
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> could still be suffixed by a number, or not. |
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> Hierarchy would be the following |
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> snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... |
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> Or at least that's my thoughts on it. Time for others thoughts, much |
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> less those that will make it so. Not expecting it to get done or be |
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> available any time soon. Would be suffice if they were just accepted and |
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> planned for inclusion at some point. |
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