Nov. 25, 2009
10:29 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:52:45PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
BTW: How would you name a snapshot using the scheme ?
Say you are working on an upcoming version 3.2.0 of a package and you use the date as snapshot indicator (as opposed to some revision, which doesn't have any meaning for an end-user).
I suppose this is the only way:
3.2.0a0.20091125
... not very obvious :-(
I think it would be this: 3.2.0a0.dev20091125 But given that you came up with something else the non-obvious argument might be valid.
If we'd allow [a-z_] (including the underscore which AFAIK doesn't cause RPM/deb problems), this could also be written as:
3.2.0_dev_snapshot.20091125
... much better :-)
Now this would be 3.2.0.dev20091125 Regards Floris