From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile reader package names are problematic
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:34:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uchd4su.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nhehgio.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:55:27 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>> How about naming them "guile-reader" with a version number of
>> 0.6-1.8.8 and 0.6-2.0.7, or the other way round 1.8.8-0.6 and
>> 2.0.7-0.6?
>
> We can't do this, because it would break the version-number comparison
> logic. One option would be to change the dash to something else.
> Maybe tilde?
>
> guile-reader-for-guile~1.8.8
> guile-reader-for-guile~2.0.7
Good idea.
> Even if we decide to remove 'guile-reader-for-guile-1.8.8', there will
> surely be other cases like this, so it would be useful to decide on a
> policy.
Yes, so maybe we can keep it as an illustrative example, but with tilde.
Feel free to commit a patch that does that.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 2:10 Guile reader package names are problematic Mark H Weaver
2013-02-14 9:57 ` Andreas Enge
2013-02-14 18:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-02-15 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-02-17 4:57 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-02-17 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-14 11:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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