On Saturday 16 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Have a look at every package using a MY_PV style thing. Group those > into "upstream's doing something dumb" and "upstream's being sensible > but our arbitrary restrictions on rules means we can't follow what > they do".
I like the fact that our versioning rules are a fixed subset of the sum of all our upstream's versioning rules. It provides a more consistent user experience. As a user, I know it's always "_rc" and never "-rc". Gentoo developers take care of mapping all upstream versions onto an easy-to-remember set of ebuild versions. The file extension change makes changing versioning rules possible. From a developer PoV, this might relieve me from fiddling with MY_PV. However, I have to take care of additional fuzz with file extensions (As pointed out by klausman). Bottom line: I see no gain for me as a developer, and a loss of consistency for users. Robert
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