From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJuFOK4=5kHmL+4NZqW--t5-RpN9Ddzx0w97PmgY3xpo-YfU9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1jw8jyp.fsf@fastmail.com>
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.
- Taylan
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:02 PM Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
>
> > On 2018-12-25 20:49, Taylan Kammer wrote:
> >> Currently, after running 'guix pull', the Guix version will be reported
> >> by 'guix --version' as something like:
> >>
> >> 522d1b87bc88dd459ade51b1ee0545937da8d3b5
> >>
> >> I think it would be really nice if instead it were something like:
> >>
> >> 2018-12-25-522d1b
> >>
> >> where the date is the commit's date (year, month, day) in UTC+0.
> >>
> >> That's shorter, more descriptive, and just as unique. (The chances of
> >> there being two commits in the same day with the same first 6 positions
> >> in the hash should be negligient.)
> >>
> >> The package name is currently something like:
> >>
> >> guix-522d1b87b
> >>
> >> That could become:
> >>
> >> guix-2018-12-25-522d1b
> >>
> >> which is a bit longer but more descriptive.
> >>
> >> I looked into guix/self.scm a bit but couldn't easily tell how difficult
> >> it would be to implement these changes.
> >>
> >> Thoughts? Worth it?
> >
> > I think it is worth it, in fact I was on my way to suggest the same.
>
> I like the "git describe" format:
>
> $ git describe
> v0.16.0-414-ge99d036828
>
> It does not mention a date, but it can be copy-pasted into "git" and
> shows how many commits there were between each generation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-27 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-25 19:49 Better names for Guix versions from git? Taylan Kammer
2018-12-25 21:45 ` swedebugia
2018-12-26 13:57 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-12-30 2:48 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2018-12-31 12:45 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-12-26 14:02 ` Marius Bakke
2018-12-27 21:30 ` Taylan Kammer [this message]
2018-12-29 11:53 ` Björn Höfling
2018-12-29 16:39 ` swedebugia
2018-12-29 22:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-29 23:52 ` Björn Höfling
2019-01-05 17:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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