Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????

2002-04-22 Thread Rune B. Broberg
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Agustin Martin Domingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > point in versions is not decimal separator, but major or minor version
> > separator. So
> >
> > 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1
> >
> > all means 
> >
> > major version=0
> > first minor version=1
> 
> Many developers don't consider those identical, though.  I wonder if
> fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison?  So
> comparing 0.01 and 0.1, you'd zero-pad 0.1 -> 0.10, and get the right
> comparison.

0.9 compared to 0.89 would then be the same as 0.90 compared to 0.89?
Not good.

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Re: Faster Release Cycle = More Up to date Packages...

2002-04-11 Thread Rune B. Broberg
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:13:49PM +0200, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> Thank you Joey for being so obliging to a constructive proposal, and 
> thank you for your polite way of replying to my proposal.
> 
> Do you think you could put your 6 year old attitude aside for a few 
> moments and take this as a contructive proposal as other normal 
> grownups would do?

This gets you right about nowhere, fighting flame with fire.

I think Torsten has a much, much better point here - get rid of the
current RC-bugs now, and find out how woody+1 is going to be done in the
weeks following the Woody-release - with the new DPL.

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