On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le jeudi 20 mars 2008, à 22:27 -0400, Andrew Cowie a écrit : > > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:39 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > There is no reliable way to determine > > > the latest versions. > > > > You said you'd be working in Python; the Gentoo linux people have some > > excellent ordering algorithms embodied in Portage. I can ask around to > > find out the particular code to look at if you're interested. > > > > But either way, it'd be nice if we can manage to make this not be a > > bugaboo that gets in your way. I know we're going to keep using rc's. > > Any reason to not switch to the GNOME module versioning scheme? See > http://developer.gnome.org/gep/gep-4.html > > It's not mandatory, but it makes it easier for a lot of people to use > the same scheme.
Not all parts of gep-4 are mandatory. But that gep is 6 years old, and since that time *every* gnome module has adopted the numeric-characters-(and-period-)only rule...except for very recent versions of java-gnome. In fact, I would have stuck this exact piece of information on http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/ModuleRequirements when writing that, except for the fact that I noticed all modules were already following it so I didn't think it was worth repeating. In my opinion, this part of the gep should be mandatory for the reasons Olav and Christian has pointed out. Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list