On 1/12/07, Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Zed A. Shaw wrote: > >> * When release candidates are released, can you append something like > >> "~rc1" to the tar file? This help debian auto tools to check new > >> releases. > > > > There's also a problem with how Rake and/or rubygems likes its version > > numbers. It won't accept ~rc1 style endings for various design reasons. > > Hum... then -rc1? :D Well, I take a look at this when generating the rake > task.
I *THINK* this is not the rubygems standard. See this: http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/16 I also *THINK* these constraints are due to the way RubyGems allows specification of variable gem version, for example, "> 0.1.0" or "= "1.0.1". If they allowed people to put random character strings in version numbers that logic couldn't work. That brings up a couple of questions that I'd like to know the answers to: 1. Why does debian or apt need to distinguish between release candidates? Is this automatically tied to -dev packages or something? 2. How are rubygems supposed to indicate release candidates, or beta or whatever you call something that is pre-release? -- Chad _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
