On 2008 Sep 10, at 6:48, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2008 11:47 schrieben Sie:
So we should think about how to make it less confusing. Perhaps like
distributors use an extra revision number we should do the same.
Yes, maybe this is the way to go.
Everyone who manages packages runs into this, and all of them use
revision numbers like this. (.rN for gentoo was already mentioned;
BSD ports and MacPorts use _, RPM uses -. Depot collections at CMU
also use -.)
And while we're on that topic, most of them also have an "epoch" which
overrides the version number. If for some reason an updated package
*doesn't* change the version, or goes backwards (because of a major
bug leading to backing off the new release), you increase the epoch so
dependent packages don't get confused when it's re-released. If we're
considering modifying hackage's versioning, we should probably decide
if we want/need this now instead of having to add it in later when
something major goes *boom*.
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