Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:35:40PM -0500, Adam Atlas wrote: > On 3 Nov 2009, at 12:58, David Cantrell wrote: > >Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark > >Ages before they had an operating system, as an example, is a FAIL. > When didn't Apple have an operating system, o

Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:15:20AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: > Mac OS has used fixed-layout version structures, allowing only three > numeric fields ... Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark Ages before they had an operating system, as an example, is a FAIL. -- D

Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread Adam Atlas
On 3 Nov 2009, at 12:58, David Cantrell wrote: Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark Ages before they had an operating system, as an example, is a FAIL. When didn't Apple have an operating system, other than maybe the earliest Apple I/Apple II days? (Is it th

Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:58 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:15:20AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: Mac OS has used fixed-layout version structures, allowing only three numeric fields ... Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark Ages before they had a

Re: versions

2009-11-02 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-11-02 16:40]: Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full of old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea. Oh, and so that those who aren't in the know can enjoy basking in the hate: ht

Re: versions

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full of old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea. -- *AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1} &Just->another->Perl->hack; #Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: versions

2009-11-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-11-02 16:40]: > Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full > of old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea. Oh, and so that those who aren't in the know can enjoy basking in the hate: http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369/version-numbers-shou

versions

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Kruse
Chapter 1: for b in /bin/* /usr/bin/*; do $b --version; done I never did that but on a GNU system probably 90% of the programs would support that option. Good thing... looks like a standard, standards are good, aren't they? me: well, is there a standard for the version string? GNU: of course not