On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 05:56 -0800, John Meacham wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 04:06 -0800, John Meacham wrote: > > > Well, my main concern is that I have projects that have several > > > distribution formats, tarball, rpm, deb, and hopefully hackage > > > (alongside the others as equals). I don't want the version numbers to > > > get out of sync though, just because I have to reroll the hackage, or > > > rpm, or whatever release, I don't want to have to artificially increase > > > its version number such that it gets out of sync with the actual version > > > number of the package. For instance, I have a yum repository that > > > contains my various projects (DrIFT, jhc, etc..) and bumping the release > > > version is what I need to do to get 'yum update' to grab new versions, > > > but I don't want to have to rerelease hackage, tarball, or deb versions > > > to keep my version numbers in sync just for fixing an rpm or > > > distribution compatability issue. With rpm I don't have to do this since > > > it has a release version, so I am looking for something similar on the > > > hackage side of things. > > > > If it's purely a change in the .cabal file then the second mechanism > > that I described should be ok. > > > > Or release foo-x.y.z.1 only on hackage with the semantics being that > > it's a minor build fix for the primary version number foo-x.y.z. The > > only difference is that someone can install both variants > > simultaneously. > > > yeah, but then we have the odd case of things like frisby 0.9.0 and > 0.9.0.1 both floating about, where the second is actually just the > cabalized version of the first, and not an actual version. it gets even > more complicated if I actually want to create a _real_ frisby 0.9.0.1 > for a bug fix in the code. A dedicated 'release' number would be ideal > and would make things more in line with the other packaging formats.
What would it mean? Is frisby-0.9.0-r1 different from frisby-0.9.0? Can I install both at once? Is it just a tag on one digit of the version number or does it change the semantics? Can another package depend on frisby >= 0.9.0-r3 ? Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
