Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien
On 22 May 2002, Adrian Aichner mused:
>>>>> "nix" == nix
<nix(a)esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
nix> 2002.040500 (01, 02, 03...)
Looks like a date to me, why not make it one?
Because it's a version number for the packaging system. :)
How about ISO8601 compliant 20020405Z1432 (released at 1432 UTC).
Because the version numbers must be a number (possibly floating-point),
and that's not a number.
I'm trying to deform the date and time into numeric form; elsewhere,
preview-latex has either a datestamp (for CVS stuff) or a conventional
version number (for releases), like 0.7.2.
(But we can't give the XEmacs package that version because it's not a
number. In fact, any version number that long will tend to fall victim
to rounding anyway, I'd have thought :( )
nix> Of course. (I tend to mean `UTC' when I say
`time' or `date' anyway;
nix> count it up to .uk provincialism... ;) )
Make sure not to switch to summertime, then! :-)
Bah, summertime is for humans :)
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