Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:38:14 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@rtp1.SlowBlink.Com>, freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package versionning (was: cvs commit: libh/lib/sysinstall Feature.cc) Message-ID: <20020926223814.GF47655@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <D808D41E-D171-11D6-949F-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx> References: <20020926155153.GC47655@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <D808D41E-D171-11D6-949F-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx>
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Thus spake Antoine Beaupre (anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx): > Also, if the regular version is purely advisory, people are going to be > *really* confused when they'll see that > ls-1.1 > ls-1.2 People also will be confused if they expect to see a package xv-3.10a installed, but can't find them, just because we forbid letters... That's what I wanted to circumvent. > than the rule: "don't use it unless you have to. You *can* rely on > version checking or snapshot date, in some cases. But only in desperate > cases should you fall back to using serial numbers". sounds good. > There are regression tests in bin/regression. Are they still passed? Not tested. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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