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

[James Lee]

On 20/12/10, 20:06:29, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding 
[csw-maintainers] reminder about versioning, numbering, etc. The IPS 
factor.:

> 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. [....]"


foobar-2010.12.21,REV=alpha.beta.gamma.I.dont.care.an.iota-



James.