Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:10:51
Message-Id: 44D0DC70.4090001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Atom matching behavior by Brian Harring
1 Brian Harring wrote:
2 > Response to this is that "well don't have versions like that",
3 > which while valid, is ignoring the point- cpvs are exact in their
4 > version specification, there isn't anything implicit about them.
5
6 This sounds to me like 'division through zero doesn't make sense, but
7 i've still got the right to do it'. Really, if anybody is ever going to
8 release 1.0 and 1.0.0 along each other, that person is completely on
9 crack. You can't do 2/0, either can you have 1.0 and 1.0.0 being
10 different versions. They should be the same.
11
12 That being said, which one is higher?
13
14 > Tag on a (.0)* implicitly, you open up potential issues like above.
15
16 Nonissue, really.
17
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19 Kind Regards,
20
21 Simon Stelling
22 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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