Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[email protected]> writes:

> On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Michele Simionato wrote:
>
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0386/ (Changing the version
>> comparison module in Distutils)
>
> I suggest, for now, that the version of a package be a string
> containing dot-separated list of nonnegative exact integers
> (e.g., "1.2.3.4").  These have all the good characteristics:
> easy for humans to understand, easy for programs to process,
> and above all, extremely boring so that no one would have any
> interest in arguing over the merits of one versioning scheme
> over the next.
>
> Any serious objections?  (I hope not)

I have a tentative objection to everything you're discussing. You're
building a system with package names, versions and dependencies, but the
R6RS already has all that. Where do they figure in?

Regards,

-- 
Göran Weinholt <[email protected]>
I was just hoping that maybe you could help me recalibrate the
plasma manifolds tonight.
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