Tony Finch wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Lately I've been toying with ISO date integer versions, for that "what, >> you're >> using the 2005 version?! Your shit is OLD! UPGRADE NOW!" effect. >> http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/35127 > > How do you handle parallel stable/dev/etc. branches?
Rather than trying to wedge that information into a single number, and not everyone does or gets the odd/even convention, I'd do it via a totally different vector. In the case of Perl it's the META.yml file, but whatever metadata you may have. RPM spec file, dpkg info, portfile... http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2007/12/msg1151.html Because I slice my projects so thin, I don't tend to need a long running dev branches -- a classic source of hate -- there's just not that much to dev. -- 164. There is no such thing as a were-virgin. -- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army http://skippyslist.com/?page_id=3
