SPECS: makewhatis.spec (NEW) - added - linux port of FreeBSD makew...

Fryderyk Dziarmagowski freetz at gmx.net
Sat Jul 9 14:02:59 CEST 2005


On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:47:56 +0200
Michal Moskal <michal.moskal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/9/05, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski <freetz at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:26:40 +0200
> > Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > I'm author of FreeBSD makewhatis Linux port and I don't plan to change
> > > > > versioning schema because it is my versioning schema, which is convient
> > > > > to me.
> > > >
> > > > your versioning is your personal problem. but in PLD you _must_ follow
> > > > PLD's versioning schema (already pointed by Patrys).
> > > Huh? We follow author versioning unless these are snapshots where in this case
> > > these aren't snapshots it seems.
> > 
> > such versioning gives 'snapshot' feeling for me and confuses users with
> > not human readable package names like makemesick-2006.06.06.01.
> 
> For me this is perfectly human readable. What if I were to call my

maybe. but not for me.

> encryption package ZW5jcnlwdAo (for example because it is how it
> encrypts some word)? You would propose a different name?

well, it doesn't matter how it sounds. we're talking about numbers (for
your information).

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski



More information about the pld-devel-en mailing list