On Jan 10, 2008 3:14 PM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few apps with highly confusing version numbers. For example, > Expect <http://expect.nist.gov/> has a released 5.44.0 and 5.44.1, but > they are "recalled": 5.43.0 is the actual latest version (as used by > Linux-From-Scratch dev. version, for example).
"Recalled" versions can be handled by removing them from the repo. > And there have been > worse offenders on occasion, for example Adium (luckily OSX-only; see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium for the horrendous history). I think > it might be beneficial to provide a way to override the default > version-ordering. Also there are some apps that are renamed while being > the same thing, such as gaim->pidgin or ethereal->wireshark... but those > usually don't cause any real trouble. Name changes can be handled by CompatibilityList when needed, but are usually not needed for end-user applications. > It's more the above situations, > or other non-renamings like Qt(3 vs. 4) that cause trouble... Dependency ranges "Qt >= 3, < 4" can already handle that. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
