On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > Yep, IIRC it *was* Pavel's personal preference. It cetainly isn't mine. > > I agree with Max: packages should be uniquely identified, to avoid > > confusion *during the prerelease phase*. Imagine: > > > > "Bob, there's a proplem with your foo-1.3.2-1 package" > > "That's fixed in the third release of foo-1.3.2-1" > > "Wait, Bob, I thought I was using the third release. Are you sure?" > > "Nope, you're right -- it's the *fourth* release that fixes the problem. > > Here's the package md5sum..." > > "Um, bob, I just downloaded foo-1.3.2-1 and it has md5sum xxxx. Is that > > newer, or older than the mythical fourth release?" > > "Yeah, sorry about that. I gave you the md5sum of the fourth > > pre-release. I expected that you would simply compare it to the md5sum > > of the package you've been complaining about (#3 ?). However, you can't > > download the #3 nor #4 prereleases anymore. We're up to the sixth > > pre-release, and THAT is what you just downloaded..." > > You're assuming that the guy has enough web space to hold all > intermidiate releases. I've never seen this here. New packages are > uploaded and the old ones removed.
One issue here is caching servers. I've been bitten many times by them, changing a file on the server, but then getting an old copy for about 3 hours until the cache is updated (buggy cache, of course, but oh, so possible). Changing the name circumvents this. > [snip] > My point back then, when I replied to Daniel, was that I'm not doing this > because "I like it this way". If you think about it, there is no gain for > me to prefer one way over the other. This was my understanding of how the > release process should work and it was based on the documentation on how to > make packages. > > I'm not some freak who cant accept other peoples opinions. I'm open and > since I see that my way is unacceptable for many of the people here, I > agree that if a maintainer wants to bump the number then it is up to him > not me. Noone implied you were. If the documentation suggests that this is the only way, then the documentation should be changed... > My work here is simple - keep a list of packages so people won't forget > about them. > [snip] > The important thing is to keep the packages coming. Amen. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune