Re: install-module on master.gnome.org

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 3/21/08, daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> wrote:
>  On Do, 2008-03-20 at 22:39 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Andrew Cowie wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 22:26 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > - checking of sane versions (no 'rc1' 'beta1' etc)
>  > >
>  > > Why not? If a project wants to do that, that's their business.
>  >
>  > Because it confuses the ordering. There is no reliable way to determine
>  > the latest versions.
>
> isnt there "ls -v", which we could use for that?

Aside of install-module, versions with alphabetic characters also
confuses all wellknown package managers for the same reason. So in
addition to patching install-module, all packagers also need to do
various kinds of ugly hacks in order to get the ordering right.

Just because a project wants to name their version something broken,
doesn't mean the naming is less broken by design. The world would be a
better place if all releases used x.y or x.y.z version names.


Christian