On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:13:10PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Why is the ~ necessary? Just do > + 3.X.YalphaZ - for alpha releases > + 3.X.YbetaZ - for beta releases > + 3.X.Y.Z - for release candidates > > And to answer your question for pkgsrc: it knows about "alpha", "beta" > and "rc" and sorts them correctly. If there's a tilde in there we'd > have the change the pkgsrc name of the package to one without a tilde.
A seperator makes it easier to split up the version with sed/grep/etc. in primitive ad-hoc scripting. see also the comment on using _ instead of ~ as separator (the "Debian git notation"): 3.X.Y_alphaZ - for alpha releases 3.X.Y_betaZ - for beta releases 3.X.Y.Z - for release candidates Best, Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
