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 1J1cxB-0003GD-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:21:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBA7KWtg010472; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:20:32 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBA7IWps007950 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:18:33 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7ED08D305 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:20:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id c4DYdN9hO+2a for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:20:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63ED98D306 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:20:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:18:26 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] scm package version suffix Message-ID: <20071210071826.465f7bff@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071210043146.GE4162@supernova> References: <200712091701.50364.peper@gentoo.org> <475C37C7.8010201@gentoo.org> <20071209185745.2baa293d@blueyonder.co.uk> <20071210043146.GE4162@supernova> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/6GueBdkL=pKooInY.Fz3.Dt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 48947639-71b8-4d16-99a8-46641cab5d61 X-Archives-Hash: 08b44236154ccc1f17ada8e0c8416f2c --Sig_/6GueBdkL=pKooInY.Fz3.Dt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 20:31:46 -0800 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 18:57 Sun 09 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:45:27 +0100 > > Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wrote: > > > What is the point of using version information along the scm > > > suffix? > >=20 > > Branches. >=20 > How would I handle branches that aren't numbers but are instead > strings, which seems to grow increasingly more common as VCSs can > handle it? Just give them arbitrary numbers? Feature as opposed to release branches would still have to be separate packages, especially if you need to depend upon a particular feature. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/6GueBdkL=pKooInY.Fz3.Dt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXOhC96zL6DUtXhERAlBYAJ4kEqcGi69oqKLsrT1u+ny+zqCJOQCglzGW lwtPYzdLJU6YMwjEDG5GQNs= =LWIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6GueBdkL=pKooInY.Fz3.Dt-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list