From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Better names for Guix versions from git? Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:50:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8ewhrrw.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87lg4dwfmt.fsf@gmail.com> <351d14fe-0edd-6575-939d-981598b65255@riseup.net> <87k1jw8jyp.fsf@fastmail.com> <1295C96F-04B7-4A8F-99E9-2C6C6C1D9061@pretty.Easy.privacy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60835) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdNRC-0004IV-LR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:50:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdNR6-0000YQ-KM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:50:34 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o53.zoho.com ([135.84.80.218]:21760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gdNR6-0000PS-6l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 17:50:28 -0500 In-reply-to: <1295C96F-04B7-4A8F-99E9-2C6C6C1D9061@pretty.Easy.privacy> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" swedebugia writes: > "Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling" skrev: (29 = december 2018 12:53:04 CET) >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 >>Taylan Kammer wrote: >> >>> I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they >>> immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly >>> live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have. >> >>I also would prefer a string containing the date. >> >>Bj=C3=B6rn > > +1. Maybe we could do both, first the date then the commits then the hash? Including a date would require more effort, because this format is not supported by git, as far as I know. Support for the output of =E2=80=9Cgit describe=E2=80=9D would likely be mu= ch easier to implement, but note that this might require missing features to be implemented in guile-git. -- Ricardo