On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I agree with almost everything jquinn said, except for the use of ':' to delimit version numbers. Like it or not, the rest of the software world uses '.'. If we're going to a 'dotted decimal' scheme, we should use '.'. The cost of doing things "our own way" is just too high otherwise. > I don't expect to have any encoded info which makes this decidedly easy. I > just want a simple way to say that versions 3.x - 5.x work on OS release > 8.2. Nothing in the bundle needs to indicate that specifically, but at > least we'd have a way to easily document compatibilities. I understand what No, you've missed my point: it is *not possible* to put this information in the bundle, because we don't *know* that version 8 is incompatible with release 9.1 *until after 9.1 is released*. So the compatibility information has to be maintained externally. So, that separates our concerns into two independent problems: a) is it worthwhile to add dotted decimal version numbers? (I remain unconvinced that this solves any problems, and introduces ambiguities of comparison: Is 1.1 "newer" or "older" than 1.11?) b) how to *externally indicate* which versions work with a given release. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar