Didier Verna wrote: > Hi, > > in general, I don't like the way ASDF tries to force you to comply with > its own design choices and policy. This is especially true for component > versioning. ASDF complains that it doesn't like my version numbers > (which, in fact, are not only numbers ;-), but I'm not ready to give up > on them. They're much more informative than ASDF's simplistic 1.2.3.
Counterpoint: humans have to be able to read and compare the version numbers reliably too. I have a tendency to prefer intra-system-definition-facility standardization of version formats for that and similar reasons (for instance, Debian packages have a similar albeit richer constraint). I would be more in favor of a way of specifying both "standardized version" and "flavorful version". Weaker counterpoint: metadata analyzers may want to read version numbers without having to integrate arbitrary code from the systems too (but I don't know whether this is currently practical in the first place). Curiosity: what _are_ your version numbers like, and how do you compare them? It was a little too hard to find this readily from your website. Maybe seeing a good example would help. ---> Drake Wilson
