Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Walter <walter.stanish@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:32:58
Message-Id: CACwuEiNr7syzUUmkpwMdJBzg3y-Q4gnmt9QEPkyRNC3Ycty+4g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >> It's certainly possible to update. Right now, since package names
2 >> can't include dots, any normal version syntax is pretty much banned
3 >> anyway. Probably the only thing that would be accepted is a whole
4 >> integer based version, with no ".x.x" subversioning present.
5 >
6 > You're forgetting letters and suffixes. It's not "pretty much" and
7 > "probably" at all.
8
9 I did consider those.
10
11 Since they have to be prefixed, they are only relevant in the same
12 subset of cases, ie. single digit version numbers = rarely.
13
14 - Walter