Erich Focht wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 10:38, Andrea Righi wrote: >>> The '~' operator in debs is pretty useful for doing pre-releases, >>> since it sorts < 0. >>> >>> 4.0.0~svn1234 is < 4.0.0. >>> 4.0.1~rc1-1 < 4.0.0-1 >>> etc. >>> >> And RPM doesn't support it... deb is good, RPM is evil. :-) >> > > All this comes from the incrementation of the version number after tagging it. > If you leave the version number alone and increment it only when tagging: > > 4.0.0 < 4.0.0.svn1234 < 4.0.1 < 4.0.1.svn1300 >
yes, but I think 4.0.0.svn1234, for example, is a bit misleading: a user could understand this as a pre-release of 4.0.0, instead of a pre-release of 4.0.1. My $0.02 -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
