On 21/01/2022 22:09, Robert Riebisch via Svardos-users wrote:
I know, and I pondered about that when implementing the thing, and came
to the conclusion that displaying packages in reverse might look like
pretending that the sort order is consistent with versioning (it's not).
I see, but doesn't make sense to me. ;-)
That's because we are leaving the technical world and entering the
realms of human psychology. :)
But to be short: yes I know it looks strange, will do what I can to
implement it properly.
Adding a timestamp value to each package is the easiest way to figure
out the age of a package. :-D
True. But then there's another problem: the human factor. Having humans
enter valid metadata is hard, I learned that when I was responsible for
package repositories of FreeDOS. It is why I greatly simplified the pkg
metadata used in SvarDOS. It's only two lines: a description and a
version string, that's the bare minimum. I'd prefer to keep it that way,
although I might revisit if the version-comparing code I will create
ends up to be not satisfactory.
Mateusz
_______________________________________________
Svardos-users mailing list
Svardos-users@lists.osdn.me
https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/svardos-users
