[Kolab-devel] Kolab server version numbering

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:

> * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20071015 07:22]:
>> Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de> writes:
>> > Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> writes:
>> >> Concerning the "_betaX+cvs" I'm still against using the "+" sign :)
>> >> I > >> know it clarifies the meaning as "version X PLUS something".
>> >
>> > I like the "+" sign for the very reason you mentioned, it clearly
>> > signals in what way the version differs from the release.
>> >
>> >> But I never saw a "+" in a source package file name when I packaged
>> >> something for Gentoo. So I'm sceptic about using it.
>> >
>> > This is a very week argument.  As long as there is no technical
>> > reason not to do it, please use the most readable variant.
>> 
>> As mentioned I don't have anything specific for being against the
>> "+". This is just gut feeling :)
>> 
>> It matches the POSIX "Fully portable filenames" though:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_file_name_limitations
>> 
>> But that still makes it no valid technical reason :)
>
> Debian makes frequent use of + chars in version numbers, e.g.:
> vim-7.0-122+1etch3
> sawfish-1.3+cvs20061004-1
>
> And if you look at your own system you might find things like
> libstdc++
> g++
>
> (just try "ls /usr/*/*+*")
>
> And now that I had seen some foo.cvs version strings in this thread,
> I more and more think that using foo+cvs is so much more readable
> that this only a little bit uncommon char is worth being used.
>
> Above URL reassured me that only Windows VFAT might suffer here, but
> for CVS snapshots I really don't care about that.
>
> So now I say: we should use foo+cvs

The version numbers in perl-kolab, php-kolab, kolab-freebusy,
kolab-filter, and kolabconf have been adapted to the new scheme.

kolab-webadmin and kolabd are still pending transformation into normal
packages so they still use the old scheme.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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