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Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering |
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:34:43 +0100 |
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:45:43AM CET:
>>
>> An alternative is to change the format of the version string, like
>> git does. s/-/./g. They also prepend an alpha ('g') to the SHA1 part.
>
> A small data point: I recall Debian disliking '-' in version strings at
> one point in time, because they like to append their own package version
> with one or more hyphens. Dunno how much that matters any more or at
> all, or if other distros do similar.
RPM disallows hyphens in version strings altogether.
Andreas.
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- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, (continued)
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Eric Blake, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Eric Blake, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering, Paul Eggert, 2007/11/03
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: m4_version_compare and new version numbering [was: distcheck fails with autotest...], Eric Blake, 2007/11/03
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/11/03
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/03
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Eric Blake, 2007/11/03
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/11/02
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/02
- [PATCH] Document a bug in GNU Bash with {...} blocks and redirections., Benoit Sigoure, 2007/11/02
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Andreas Schwab, 2007/11/02
- Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied, Jim Meyering, 2007/11/02
- Autoconf test failure caused by Bash bug with "{ ... } >unwritable", Paul Eggert, 2007/11/02