On 3/21/08, daniel g. siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Do, 2008-03-20 at 22:39 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Andrew Cowie wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:26 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > > > > - checking of sane versions (no 'rc1' 'beta1' etc) > > > > > > Why not? If a project wants to do that, that's their business. > > > > Because it confuses the ordering. There is no reliable way to determine > > the latest versions. > > isnt there "ls -v", which we could use for that?
Aside of install-module, versions with alphabetic characters also confuses all wellknown package managers for the same reason. So in addition to patching install-module, all packagers also need to do various kinds of ugly hacks in order to get the ordering right. Just because a project wants to name their version something broken, doesn't mean the naming is less broken by design. The world would be a better place if all releases used x.y or x.y.z version names. Christian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list