We'd talked privately, a while back, about putting the "human readable" or "author approved" (or whatever) version string into a package variable. That would allow us to encode things like -alpha, -beta, -rc, and so on in a standard location, without having to come up with a dotsequence that represented a subtractive version.
It also occurred to me, in talking to Plocher yesterday, that it might be useful to encode some of Sun's "big rules" in attributes, too. The one that I thought might be most interesting is whether a package is part of the TCB (trusted computing base), but perhaps if you're interested in something that's considered section 508 compliant, or is correctly i18n'ed, or ... Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
