* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-24 19:07]: > > I've created a new webrev for: > > > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4100 > > Need to add package category/sub-category data for 2008.11 > > > > Webrev is at: > > > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~richb/pkg-4100-v5/ > > > > After discussions with Stephen, David and Danek we are going with a > > single colon over a double colon in the info.classification lines in > > the package manifest file. > > > > We are also now using a simpler line in the > > .../distro-import/<NN>/[common,i386,sparc]/<package_name> > > files. It's now: > > > > classification "<Category>/Subcategory>" > > > > and the solaris.py script will automatically prefix > > "org.opensolaris.category.2008:" in front of the Category/Subcategory > > value for the info.classification line in each package manifest. > > I must have missed the reason for including the ".2008" suffix - could > you please elucidate?
It's traditional with classification schemes to include the year, so that you can abandon them later--in our case, when there is the inevitable recategorization of software in 5 or 10 years. See ACM, for instance: 1964, 1982, 1991, 1998. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
