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

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 21 de Dezembro de 2010 08:23, Peter FELECAN
<pfelecan at opencsw.org> escreveu:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>>> "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.
>
> it wasn't in the REV string that we "hide" def? such as
> a.b.c,REV=def,x.y.z,  in the case of openssl 0.9.8,REV=j

In the past, we had:

1.2.3,REV=YYYY.MM.DD_rev=foo

There are some unit tests with version strings that checkpkg has to handle:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/lib/python/opencsw_test.py#L197