Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-31 Thread David Golden
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Barbie wrote: >> Disallowing underscores in META would be a way to enforce this, but >> then comparing version in META and version in $VERSION is harder. > > Agreed that this needs to be made clear, but I think disallowing > underscores may cause more problems tha

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:48:17AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM, David Golden wrote: > > 04. Formalize allowed version number formats > > > > Proposal: > > > > Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized > > dotted-integer (leading "v" and at lea

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-31 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM, David Golden wrote: > 04. Formalize allowed version number formats > > Proposal: > > Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized > dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components).  (Dagolden) > > Comments: > > * It's not clear whether/how

CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-11 Thread Chris Weyl
Just to leap in here... > 04. Formalize allowed version number formats > > Proposal: > > Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized > dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden) As someone who maintains a ridiculous number of CPAN packages as RPMs in

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-09 Thread Steffen Mueller
Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:43:00] 04. Formalize allowed version number formats Proposal: Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden) Agree. (Wording should be very clear, with

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM, David Golden wrote: > 04. Formalize allowed version number formats > > Proposal: > > Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized > dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components).  (Dagolden) > > Comments: > > * It's not clear whether/how

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-09 Thread Graham Barr
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:43:00] 04. Formalize allowed version number formats Proposal: Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden) Agree. (Wordi

Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-09 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:43:00] > 04. Formalize allowed version number formats > > Proposal: > > Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized > dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden) Agree. (Wording should be very clear, with examples, in t

CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
04. Formalize allowed version number formats Proposal: Formalize the spec for version numbers as "decimal or normalized dotted-integer (leading "v" and at least 3 components). (Dagolden) Comments: * It's not clear whether/how to include alpha versions (with underscores) in the spec as they g