[csw-maintainers] bash_completion and modification of the version numbering scheme

Yann Rouillard yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org
Wed Apr 8 17:53:38 CEST 2009


Le 08.04.2009 14:52, Peter Bonivart a écrit :
> The standard also hints about the REV-field becoming the standard way
> of comparison for pkg-get, I assume it was written by Phil.
>
> http://www.opencsw.org/standards/build#versioning
>
> "Please note: the ",REV=YYYY.MM.DD" is now Mandatory. It provides a
> fixed-format way of telling how recent the package really is, for
> version comparison download purposes. At some point, it will be the
> primary comparison key for pkg-get.(but not yet)"
>

You're right, I missed that point.
Phil, do you intend to change the comparison code of pkg-get soon or do 
you think I should rather adopt the 
YEARMONTHDAY,REV=YEARMONTHDAY_rev=X.X package version numbering to be 
able to release bash_completion shortly ?

Yann



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