On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:34:18 +0100 taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer) wrote:
> David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > > >> +(define-public libmspack > >> + (package > >> + (name "libmspack") > >> + (version "0.5") > >> + (source > >> + (origin > >> + (method url-fetch) > >> + (uri (string-append > >> "http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/libmspack-" > >> + version "alpha.tar.gz")) > > > > Perhaps "alpha" should be part of the version? > > I'm not sure, but I doubt there will be a "0.5beta" or so? What do > others think? I also think it should be part of the version. They may release a non-alpha 0.5 version, and having it in the version makes the alpha quality more apparent to a user browsing 'guix package -A'. `~Eric