On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Chad Woolley wrote: > 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.
Well.... but rubygems doesn't defines the way to versioning release candidates. Actual release candidate 1 is called mongrel-1.0.gem. So, how will be called release candidate 2? mongrel-1.0.1.gem? Or it will have the same name? > > 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? No, it's just because we've a file called watch, with this content: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/gems/mongrel-([0-9\.]*)\.gem And a tool that checks the site and remind me that there is a new version. Ow, and the package version in debian always has the same version than upstream. So I thought it is someway stranger to have a release candidate package called "1.0". > 2. How are rubygems supposed to indicate release candidates, or beta > or whatever you call something that is pre-release? Don't know. Rubygems policy doesn't say anything about this. At least points 5 and 6... it just says that "Any public release of a gem should have a different version. Normally that means incrementing the build number.". filipe lautert filipe { AT } icewall.org Linux User #279798 Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
