On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I agree with almost everything jquinn said, except for the use of ':' > to delimit version numbers. Like it or not, the rest of the software > world uses '.'. If we're going to a 'dotted decimal' scheme, we > should use '.'. The cost of doing things "our own way" is just too > high otherwise. > > > I don't expect to have any encoded info which makes this decidedly easy. > I > > just want a simple way to say that versions 3.x - 5.x work on OS release > > 8.2. Nothing in the bundle needs to indicate that specifically, but at > > least we'd have a way to easily document compatibilities. I understand > what > > No, you've missed my point: it is *not possible* to put this > information in the bundle, because we don't *know* that version 8 is > incompatible with release 9.1 *until after 9.1 is released*. So the > compatibility information has to be maintained externally. > On the contrary, you are missing mine. I don't *want* this in the bundle. I want this to be a sentence that can be stated, at some point following the release of 9.1, by a wiki page, the release notes, a tech support person, a friend, or the developer herself. Nothing more. No technical magic here. The technical changes suggested (dotted decimal versioning scheme) are simply a nicety to make uttering this sentence more natural. > So, that separates our concerns into two independent problems: > a) is it worthwhile to add dotted decimal version numbers? (I remain > unconvinced that this solves any problems, and introduces ambiguities > of comparison: Is 1.1 "newer" or "older" than 1.11?) I think this is still a whole bunch clearer than trying to convince someone that version 5 is newer than version 10! (where 10 is a "bugfix" release to what used to be version 4.) - Eben
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