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Re: Guile reader package names are problematic
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Guile reader package names are problematic |
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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:34:25 +0100 |
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> Andreas Enge <address@hidden> 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’.
Re: Guile reader package names are problematic, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/02/14