Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> What is with this snake like facination with epochs?
Firstly, this is uncalled for. Secondly, even as a popular
belief, it is not snakes that are fascinated, their victims are
supposed to be. Thirdly, there is no scientific evidence that snakes
indeed semi-hypnotize their prey.
Dale> Epochs are intended to be a fix for version number overlap.
Why is an upstrem prerelese with an version number that does
not order well not fit this criterion?
As I see it, there are upstream releases. Some are more stable
than others. The upstream athours sometimes create versions which do
not order correctly. We use epochs to correct this.
Dale> This, on the other hand, while it does deal with version
Dale> numbers, the similarity ends there. This is a temporary problem
Dale> that is better solved by some careful planning in the
Dale> future. (Yes, it is a recurring problem, but each time, it is
Dale> temporary.)
Oh, your package, your decision, but you should realize that
the solutions presented do warp upstream versions (I assume that the
upstream release had a version number). So, it is a choice between
warping a version number (and creating confusion about exactly which
pre-release was being used) or using an epoch, which is an
irreversible process.
manoj
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