-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just a note to this. I'm co-maintainer of netbeans ebuild. Netbeans does milestone releases. These are pretty stable and usable since milestone 7 of netbeans 6.0 with many new features that make sense to use the milestone releases. I have to name the ebuilds netbeans-6.0_alpha7 etc. though I was assured by mkt guy from Sun it is not yet alpha quality. It would be fair to the upstream and to users to not use _alpha because it is not alpha but there's no appropriate choice available.
- -- Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) Gentoo/Java Team William L. Thomson Jr. napsal(a): > After reviewing > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules > > > I still seem to be having to finagle version names for some packages. At > the moment it would be nice if we also had the following suffixes > available > > _dev > Apache upstream, specifically Tomcat/mod_jk tends to do developer > snapshots that they then host out of developer space. People do fetch > bins and source from there for testing. It's kinda pre-release, so I > have been using _pre where I would use _dev, but _pre does not make much > sense. > > _build > Other packages seem to do constant builds (weekly) of the same version. > For example Glassfish (Sun's FOSS J2EE stuff). It's sources are v2-b39. > So would be nice to be able to do like glassfish-servlet-api-2_build39 > > _snapshot > This one is kinda universal in it's name/implication. Would be for any > sort of upstream snapshot release, that might not be versioned as such. > Short of the name snapshot being some where. > > The above would then follow the rest of the normal schema, where in they > could still be suffixed by a number, or not. > > Hierarchy would be the following > > snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... > > Or at least that's my thoughts on it. Time for others thoughts, much > less those that will make it so. Not expecting it to get done or be > available any time soon. Would be suffice if they were just accepted and > planned for inclusion at some point. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+yssRSzWCmqu+0YRAoQAAJ9XHz0wZL3pdkSzSyxnVRnLsrw4FwCfVMDO vuDOHvpko+t1nhu1cvx0RfY= =ZYFd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
