On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:13:10PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Why is the ~ necessary? Just do > + 3.X.YalphaZ - for alpha releases > + 3.X.YbetaZ - for beta releases > + 3.X.Y.Z - for release candidates > > And to answer your question for pkgsrc: it knows about "alpha", "beta" > and "rc" and sorts them correctly. If there's a tilde in there we'd > have the change the pkgsrc name of the package to one without a tilde.
A seperator makes it easier to split up the version with sed/grep/etc. in primitive ad-hoc scripting. see also the comment on using _ instead of ~ as separator (the "Debian git notation"): 3.X.Y_alphaZ - for alpha releases 3.X.Y_betaZ - for beta releases 3.X.Y.Z - for release candidates Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
