William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 03:11 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400
>> "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hierarchy would be the following
>>>
>>> snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta ....
>> And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself _snapshot is
>> something universal so it doesn't really fit anywhere in the chain.
> 
> Yes, order wise snapshots might be quite confusing. Not sure if a well
> defined definition would clear that up.
> 
>> Similar for _build, it usually runs parallel to normal versioning (a
>> release also has a build number).
> 
> That's more something specific to say glassfish where builds are weekly
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Promoted_binary_builds
> 
> With major ones being milestones, similar to Netbeans.
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Milestone_binary_builds
> 
> Glassfish alone is likely to comprise of a guestimated ~20 or so
> packages. It's Sun's formerly closed source J2EE stack for the most
> part. Very possible could be more, formerly know as WSDP 
> http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp
> 
>> At best older
>> portage versions would ignore ebuilds using these new suffixes
>> resulting in confused users, worst case stuff starts breaking.
>> If you want to pursue this you should get some numbers of how many
>> packages could actually make use of these new features, it simply isn't
>> worth thinking about it for just a handful of packages.

Bleh; you have to break it at one point anyhow; you added the cvs
suffix, no? :)
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