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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular
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Mirian Crzig Lennox |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:44:29 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Tom Lord) writes:
> > > Is the inevitable resulting user confusion really worth it?
> > I think when you start munging names like this, user confusion is
> > inevitable :(
>
> That's the #1 reason why I resist changes like this. We have a
> perfectly servicable namespace right now with a clear structure.
> It's all downhill from here. And, for what? An imperfect support
> for "arbitrary names"?
Well, here's the thing: I would dearly love to sell my workplace on
the idea of ditching CVS for Arch. However, that won't happen unless
Arch can support our version naming scheme, which is typically
[productname]-x.y-rel-z (for natural numbers x,y and z). For example,
they want to be able to tag something as "2.1-alpha-4", "2.1-beta-3",
"2.1-rc5", and so on. They most definitely are NOT interested in
saying "alpha-2.1.4", "beta-2.1.3", "rc-2.1.5", etc. because those
names have entirely different meanings to them, and to our customers
and beta sites.
And for what it's worth, I firmly agree. Our version naming scheme
isn't uncommon, complicated or irregular; it's perfectly reasonable to
expect Arch to cope. If it can't, we ought to fix it so it can.
Mirian
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Robert Anderson, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Robert Collins, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular,
Mirian Crzig Lennox <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Neil Stevens, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Miles Bader, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Robert Collins, 2004/01/28