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Subject: Re: Guile reader package names are problematic
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:34:25 +0100
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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!

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