On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Tamplin <j...@google.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Cameron Braid <came...@braid.com.au>wrote: > >> JBoss use a naming scheme that sorts alphabetically, maybe it is worth >> considering >> >> http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ >> >> Applied to the names in the original email >> >> 1) gwt-2.0.0-m1.zip >> 2) gwt-2.0.0-m2.zip >> 3) gwt-2.0.0-rc1.zip >> 4) gwt-2.0.0.zip >> >> They could be : >> >> 1) gwt-2.0.0-Beta1.zip (or could just use B1) >> 2) gwt-2.0.0-Beta2.zip >> > I'd prefer 'beta1' over 'Beta1'. My bikeshed doesn't allow that many keystrokes 3) gwt-2.0.0-CR1.zip (candidate for release) >> 4) gwt-2.0.0-GA.zip >> > > Uppercase for 'CR' or 'GA' are fine though > That still doesn't get you out of knowing the naming scheme in your sorter > -- Beta10 would be ordered before Beta2 if you don't do something special. > > However, I think the only case where it will actually need to be sorted is > in code, and we can encode the proper behavior there, so I don't this is an > important consideration and we should just go with what is the clearest. > > -- > John A. Tamplin > Software Engineer (GWT), Google > > > > -- Fred Sauer Developer Advocate Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 fre...@google.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
