[csw-maintainers] reminder about versioning, numbering, etc. The IPS factor.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 20.12.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Philip Brown:
> FYI, a reminder about a "past" issue, that came to my attention again:
> 
> In the past, I only allowed "pure numeric" versioning for packages.
> The Spec was
> 
> softwarename-##.##.##,REV=anythinghere.
> 
> a year or so ago, people pushed to drop the pure numeric constraint.
> No-one else wanted to keep the pure numeric restrictions. So we now
> have alphas to the left of REV, where only #.#.# used to be.
> 
> However, when and if we transition to integrating with "IPS", it
> should be mentioned:
> 
> **they only allow pure numerics for versioning**
> 
> The archive thread at
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.opensolaris.pkg.general/24163
> somehow hasnt seem to have caught up with the latest, but here's a
> quote from a later email from Danek Duvall, on the 17th Dec:
> 
> "I think it gets harder when you don't have a tuple of integers.  For
> instance, OpenSSL uses letters in their normal versions -- 0.9.8j, for
> instance, which we translated to 0.9.8.10. [....]"

Umh, this is pretty bad. I suggest using instead
  a.b.c_def,REV=x.y.z
a version of z.y.x.a.b.c and hide def somewhere.


Best regards

  -- Dago