On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:12:53PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 26 Jun 2008 at 05:01PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > 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.
Like SVR4 packaging's PSTAMP? I don't think that's a good idea. But quite apart from that, if pkg version numbers be constrained to integer tuples then I think we'll be better off having pkg version numbers bear no resemblance to the packaged software's version numbers. I strongly recommend that; alternatively, make pkg version numbers strings (but I agree, implicit numeric ordering has desirable properties). _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
