On Tuesday, 01 March 2005, at 15:56:33 (+0900),
Carsten Haitzler wrote:

> no one said it was a magical cure. it was a fixup of doing hack of
> _preX after the version to turn it into a raw numeric.

Okay, then explain to me why you added the .001 to 18 packages in CVS
when ONLY THREE of them had _pre in the version.

> no u didn't :) this is irrelevant. i repeat - the .001 REPLACED _preXX

Again...see above.  You still have not responded to this even though
I've asked twice.

> now purely numeric which makes it easier/possible to compare trivially

You still haven't solved the fundamental problem of comparing
non-integers.  .001 is no more of an integer than .pre_XX

> allows for automated snapshots. people accuse us of never releasing
> anything - but a big reason is that making a release is a PAIN IN
> THE ARSE because its 20 different packages that all need
> bumping. this is a step in trying to fix that.

I don't understand how changing 18 different snapshot numbers on a
weekly (or more) basis is easier than changing 18 different version
numbers on a bi-monthly or tri-monthly basis.

Michael

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