On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 03:04:55PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> One example of a distro where version numbers are expressed differently in
> different contexts is Apache's Mail::SpamAssassin.
>
> Dist archive name => Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.gz
> Documentation => 3.3.1
> META.yml => 3.003001
> $VERSION => "3.003001"
>
> Note that SpamAssasin used the floating point variant in META.yml. I'd be
> inclined to use the X.Y.Z format there, as Duncan does for his distro
> Set::Relation.
>
> Dist archive name => Set-Relation-0.12.7.tar.gz
> Documentation => 0.12.7
> META.yml => 0.12.7
> $VERSION => "0.012007"
In light of how downstream distributions will be prepared, I think we should
consider using floating point numbers for META.yml after all. It's possible
that we'll botch a CPAN package for a Lucy release. In that case, we'll need
to bump the version number, but we won't want to make a new official Apache
release.
I don't trust the consumers of META.yml to compare an X.Y.Z version number and
an X.Y.Z.N version number properly, but I do trust them with floating point
version numbers.
ASF release => lucy-0.2.0-incubating.tar.gz
CPAN release => Lucy-0.2.0.1.tar.gz
Documentation => 0.2.0.1
META.yml => 0.002000001
$VERSION => "0.002000001"
Hmm, I wonder if we'll end up in an arms race with other packagers...
Marvin Humphrey
