On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:16:51 +0200, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know there were some discussions on our revision token when we >> introduced revisions on recipe, but I don't remeber the conclusion and >> why >> some decisions were made. One such case is the Imagemagick recipe. The >> Imagemagick developers release several revisions of each version, last >> version atm being 6.3.3-1, while we have 6.3.3-0 in the recipe store. >> However the recipe is named 6.3.3_0, i.e. the revision dash is replaced >> with an underscore and I can't remember the real reason behind that >> decision, if there ever were such a decision. Lucas remembered something >> about it being because it was easier (less visually confusing) to use >> underscores when the deelopers released revisions as we have dashes in >> our >> revisions, e.g. ImageMagick 6.3.3_0-r1 instead of 6.3.3-0-r1. However >> this >> breaks the update of the recipe as the dash is used in the URL in the >> recipe, so NewVersion tried to substitue 6.3.3_0 with 6.3.3-1 when I ran >> 'NewVersion imagemagick 6.3.3-1'. Because of that I think we should >> reise >> the decision of substituting dashes with underscore, as I believe >> functionality should come before visual comfort. > > We can replace underscores with "[-_]" in the source regex when doing > the replacement in NewVersion; that would fix it (no access to CVS > right now to do it, though). > How do you mean then? The problem would be that any information about whichever of dash and underscore was original used by the developers, so then it would break applications that use underrscores in their revisions/versions if I'm not missing something here. -- /Jonas Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
