On Sat, 16 May 2009 20:38:30 +0200 Robert Buchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
As a user, you don't need to worry. Since 1-rc1 and 1_rc1 would be defined as equivalent, as a user you can use either and get the same results. This is already how things work for existing equivalent but not stringwise-equal versions. > Bottom line: I see no gain for me as a developer, and a loss of > consistency for users. The only impact upon users is that the package manager will be more likely to give them accurate output when showing versions. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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