On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:38:50AM +1100, Andrew Dalgleish wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:04:35AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:34:21AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> > > If you dared to be radical, you'd split the name into 3 parts:
> > > generic name - human readable version - unix time.
> > >
> > > That would read
> > > python-expat-2.3.5-1131013320
> [snip]
>
> > This does not take care of branch issues...
>
> Which branch issues do you mean?
> Do you mean things like python 2.3 vs python 2.4?
>
> There are relatively few ports which allow you to install more than
> one version, and (I think) most could be handle with something like
> python2.3-expat-2.3.5-1131013320
>
> (I agree that DNS-SOA-style numbers are easier to read than seconds.)
>
> Comparing one single number is preferable to multiple special-cased suffixes.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Dalgleish
No, I'm thinking of current vs. stable.
