On 20/12/10, 20:06:29, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] reminder about versioning, numbering, etc. The IPS factor.:
> FYI, a reminder about a "past" issue, that came to my attention again: > In the past, I only allowed "pure numeric" versioning for packages. > The Spec was > softwarename-##.##.##,REV=anythinghere. > a year or so ago, people pushed to drop the pure numeric constraint. > No-one else wanted to keep the pure numeric restrictions. So we now > have alphas to the left of REV, where only #.#.# used to be. > However, when and if we transition to integrating with "IPS", it > should be mentioned: > **they only allow pure numerics for versioning** > The archive thread at > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.pkg.general/24163 > somehow hasnt seem to have caught up with the latest, but here's a > quote from a later email from Danek Duvall, on the 17th Dec: > "I think it gets harder when you don't have a tuple of integers. For > instance, OpenSSL uses letters in their normal versions -- 0.9.8j, for > instance, which we translated to 0.9.8.10. [....]" foobar-2010.12.21,REV=alpha.beta.gamma.I.dont.care.an.iota- James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
