Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-13 Thread Henning Thielemann
Corey O'Connor wrote: I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous release. One issue I had was the previous release used the version numbering scheme I use at work: [date].[release] Which does not appear to work as well as the traditional X.Y.Z

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2009 23:02 schrieb Corey O'Connor: The way I read changes in version numbers for a scheme using the format X.Y.Z is: * A change in Z indicates bug fixes only * A change in Y indicates the interface has changed but not in an incompatible way. For instance, maybe a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:02 -0800, Corey O'Connor wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:21 -0800, Corey O'Connor wrote: I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-12 Thread Corey O'Connor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk wrote: As Wolfgang mentioned, you may choose to follow the common package versioning policy. http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy We are planning to develop tool support for this. To let packages

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-11 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:21 -0800, Corey O'Connor wrote: I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous release. One issue I had was the previous release used the version numbering scheme I use at work: [date].[release] Which does not appear to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-11 Thread Corey O'Connor
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:21 -0800, Corey O'Connor wrote: I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous release. One issue I had was the previous release used the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-11 Thread wren ng thornton
Corey O'Connor wrote: Part of the reason they seem awkward to me is that I expect the difference between version numbers to indicate something about what has changed between the two versions. This only ends up being a heuristic but a useful one. Date based version numbers don't communicate much

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-11 Thread Antoine Latter
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: For projects which are released very frequently (i.e. on the order of daily) or very infrequently (e.g. semiannually, annually) then date-based releases can make sense. However, the releases do need to be quite regular

[Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-10 Thread Corey O'Connor
I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous release. One issue I had was the previous release used the version numbering scheme I use at work: [date].[release] Which does not appear to work as well as the traditional X.Y.Z release numbering scheme

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Changing version numbering schemes for HackageDB packages?

2009-02-10 Thread Roman Cheplyaka
* Corey O'Connor coreyocon...@gmail.com [2009-02-10 10:21:54-0800] I released a new version of data-spacepart that resolved some of the issues with the previous release. One issue I had was the previous release used the version numbering scheme I use at work: [date].[release] Which does not