[arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's
providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do
anything about it.

The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless
there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline
follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1
and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan.

I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make
the version 0.90_pre1

Dist::Zilla a release automation tool also allows for using a format
_TRIAL which is not yet popular on cpan but does happen should pacman
add a _trial ? to the list of options? I think we could just use _pre
here too.
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com


Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Allan McRae

On 30/04/10 22:55, Caleb Cushing wrote:

I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's
providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do
anything about it.

The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless
there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline
follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1
and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan.

I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make
the version 0.90_pre1


Why?  0.90_pre1 is also greater than 0.90.1...  do you want to try that 
again?






Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote:
 Why?  0.90_pre1 is also greater than 0.90.1...  do you want to try that
 again?

sorry should that be 0.90pre1 ? or does one just have to leave the 1
off? in previous different thread you said rc1 would work I'm
assuming that pre works the same way as rc guess I've inadvertantly
added an _ though.


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Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com


Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
for right now I'm on drugs... or cpan is... probably both. either way
I should be ignored on this topic.
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com