On 03/24/08, Jim Walker wrote: > >Interfaces > >========== > > > > SUNWerlang-r12b Uncommitted Package Name > > SUNWerlang-r12b-doc Uncommitted Package Name > > Would more general SUNWerlang and SUNWerlang-doc package names > be better? > > I don't see a need to track the version in the package names. > It looks like around four new versions of erlang are released > each year.
Jim, Major new Erlang release came out every 1-2 years in the past. I guess those versions you mentioned were patch releases. Take R12B release as an example, it was first released on Dec 2007 as R12B-0. On Feb 2008, a new patch release R12B-1 was released. What I propose is to support multiple releases(ie., R11B, R12B) and use the latest patch releases of them(ie., R11B-5, R12B-1). For the purpose, separated package name and installation directory is needed for each release. A brief introduction to Erlang/OTP versioning scheme can be found here: http://www.erlang.org/faq/faq.html#AEN235 -- Regards, Raymond
