Re: Package Numbers
Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
What's the philosophy behind the numbering scheme for packages?
<major>.<minor> where <minor> is alphabetically sortable from 0 to 99.
<major> gets incremented any time there is a major incompatible change
and should be done sparingly.
The numbering was introduced because there are so many different ways
authors number their version and I felt that it would be intrusive to
insist that version numbers appear in a certain format (or to force
version numbers at all, for that matter).
I guess the number should get increased for each release if anything
has changed.
No. The number has to change every time a new release is made because
the MD5 hash of the tarball will change and make the package-index
file out of date.
Keeping the package-index file in synch has been a _major_ problem so
far.
Or are their more sophisticated rules when (and when not) to
increase
a package?
The <minor> number increases every time a new tarball is created to
put in the packages/ directory on ftp.xemacs.org.
Please feel free to direct any other questions you might have about
the numbering to me.