On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:14:31PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:04:30 -0500 > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > > > + (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit > > > 7))) > > > > Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there > > is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right? > > This package contains a collections of tools, only one of which > declares any sort of version (fwcutter). I had gathered that the > date-string approach was acceptable for VCS checkouts when versions are > otherwise not available. We have 34 other packages whose version begin > with such a date-string (e.g. guile-minikanren, scmutils, > guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-emacs, woff2, font-google-noto, ...).
Okay, no strong opinion here :) Thanks for writing this package!