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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware.
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:13:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161119041353.GA17084@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161118211431.5abb627e@centurylink.net>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:14:31PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:04:30 -0500
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> > > +      (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit 7)))  
> > 
> > Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there
> > is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right?
> 
> This package contains a collections of tools, only one of which
> declares any sort of version (fwcutter).  I had gathered that the
> date-string approach was acceptable for VCS checkouts when versions are
> otherwise not available.  We have 34 other packages whose version begin
> with such a date-string (e.g. guile-minikanren, scmutils,
> guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-emacs, woff2, font-google-noto, ...).

Okay, no strong opinion here :)

Thanks for writing this package!

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-19  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17  3:29 [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware Eric Bavier
2016-11-18 21:04 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-19  3:14   ` Eric Bavier
2016-11-19  4:13     ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-11-21  9:05     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-22 15:42       ` Eric Bavier
2016-12-06 19:56 ` Danny Milosavljevic

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