On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 03:11 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400 > "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hierarchy would be the following > > > > snapshot -> dev -> build -> alpha -> beta .... > > And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself _snapshot is > something universal so it doesn't really fit anywhere in the chain.
Yes, order wise snapshots might be quite confusing. Not sure if a well defined definition would clear that up. > Similar for _build, it usually runs parallel to normal versioning (a > release also has a build number). That's more something specific to say glassfish where builds are weekly https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Promoted_binary_builds With major ones being milestones, similar to Netbeans. https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#Milestone_binary_builds Glassfish alone is likely to comprise of a guestimated ~20 or so packages. It's Sun's formerly closed source J2EE stack for the most part. Very possible could be more, formerly know as WSDP http://java.sun.com/webservices/jwsdp/index.jsp > At best older > portage versions would ignore ebuilds using these new suffixes > resulting in confused users, worst case stuff starts breaking. > If you want to pursue this you should get some numbers of how many > packages could actually make use of these new features, it simply isn't > worth thinking about it for just a handful of packages. After others comments, this is definitely something for the future. If and a time comes that it's feasible to introduce such changes safely. I do agree before acceptable or implementation the amount of packages that can benefit from it would surely help justify it or not. Now I doubt it's feasible for me alone to figure out if it can benefit all 4k+ packages :) So hopefully others can chime in briefly on if they can benefit or not. Maybe email me directly to I can start a tally. Only if you have packages that can benefit, no need otherwise. With that said, what percentage or ruff # of packages do you all think would need to benefit to justify it? That way if it's hard to find say 50 and min is like 500+, then no reason to look into it any further. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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