From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1aLu-0004fB-8a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:34:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBA4Xx5L030075; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:33:59 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBA4VmjD027132 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:31:49 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC0165414 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 20:31:46 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] scm package version suffix Message-ID: <20071210043146.GE4162@supernova> References: <200712091701.50364.peper@gentoo.org> <475C37C7.8010201@gentoo.org> <20071209185745.2baa293d@blueyonder.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071209185745.2baa293d@blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id lBA4Xx72030075 X-Archives-Salt: 24646dde-c219-423a-8d8f-7c99db217240 X-Archives-Hash: 52a7c79dbf43c49df18172a31149ea1b On 18:57 Sun 09 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:45:27 +0100 > Jan Kundr=E1t wrote: > > What is the point of using version information along the scm suffix? >=20 > Branches. How would I handle branches that aren't numbers but are instead strings,=20 which seems to grow increasingly more common as VCSs can handle it? Just=20 give them arbitrary numbers? Thanks, Donnie --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list