Simon, I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am not suggesting anarchy, completely the opposite.
Semantic versioning as defined on http://semver.org was designed exactly for being able to order the versions, and being able to express release candidates, alpha and beta builds, etc. An example ordering from the homepage: 1.0.0-alpha < 1.0.0-alpha.1 < 1.0.0-alpha.beta < 1.0.0-beta < 1.0.0-beta.2 < 1.0.0-beta.11 < 1.0.0-rc.1 < 1.0.0. Currently there is no way to give a version number to my builds that are in between releases. Having multiple branches of development is even more problematic. My problem is not that I am forced to use something meaningful. My problem is that the system I am forced to use is not expressive enough. Hope it is clearer now. Gabor On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>wrote: > Gabor, > > what you propose is not really feasible, because R relies on the fact that > it can meaningfully order the the versions as to determine the update > order. If you use arbitrary strings then ordering becomes random - that's > why git commit hashes are so useless for this purpose. The fact that you > are forced to use something meaningful is for a good reason here. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 8:53 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear R developers, > > > > (http://bugs.r-project.org/ seems to be down, so I am writing a feature > > request here.) > > > > It would be great to allow semantic version numbers for packages. See > > http://semver.org/ for details. > > > > The problem I am having is that I am setting up a nightly build server, > and > > there is no easy way to create a version number for builds that are in > > between releases. > > > > Ideally I would use something like > > > > TAG+DIST.HASH > > > > TAG is the last tag of the git branch, usually something like > > MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, DIST is the number of commits since the last release > and > > HASH is the first seven letters of the git hash for the commit. E.g. > > > > 0.7.0-pre+518.badcafe > > > > Right now instead of this I am forced to use something like > > > > 0.6.999.518 > > > > which is a lot less expressive and there is no (easy) way to include the > > branch information. > > > > Thanks, Best Regards, > > Gabor > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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