On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:01PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:43:29PM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote:
> > Danek Duvall wrote:
> > >>> Is there a 1.1 version that's different from 1.01?
> > >> Not yet, nor is there a 1.10 yet.
> > >
> > > Though trailing zeroes are significant. That's ten, not a different way
> > > of
> > > writing one.
> >
> > Is it? In normal numerical representation, "1.1" and "1.10" are the
> > same value, while "1.01" is a very different value.
>
> I suspect IPS isn't treating pkg version numbers as reals, but as tuples
> of integers separated by periods.
Correct, they are converted into a list representation called
DotSequence in the code. Thus, 1.1.1.93.23.1.2 is a valid version.
> One good reason to separate pkg and software version numbers is that you
> might make changes to a package without changing the packaged software
> at all. Then, if your intention had been to have the pkg version number
> mimic the packaged software's, how would you encode such a change into
> the package's version number??
You'd republish the package with a newer timestamp.
-dp
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