Re: Version numbering

[Daniel Reed]

On 2003-09-29T22:50+0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
) planning to make 2.2 < 2.3a < 2.3.  That would be counter
) intuitive.  IMHO any numbering scheme ought to work with `ls -v'.

 ls                         ls -v                      ls -rt
naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.7.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.7.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.8.1.tar.gz     naim-0.11.5.8.1.tar.gz     naim-0.11.5.7.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.8.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.8.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.8.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.9.cyg1.tar.gz  naim-0.11.5.9.cyg1.tar.gz  naim-0.11.5.8.1.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10.tar.gz naim-0.11.5.9.cyg9.tar.gz  naim-0.11.5.9.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11.tar.gz naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10.tar.gz naim-0.11.5.9.cyg1.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.9.cyg9.tar.gz  naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11.tar.gz naim-0.11.5.9.cyg9.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.9.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.9.tar.gz       naim-0.11.5.9.cyg10.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.tar.gz         naim-0.11.5.tar.gz         naim-0.11.5.9.cyg11.tar.gz

Several GNU projects (including GCC) do leave off .0's for anything past the
minor number, so it seems ls -v can't be the final authority :/

What I do is timestamp pre-release snapshots, which does work with ls -v
(and just ls). That is, I might have:
naim-0.11.5-2002-12-08-1324.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.1-2002-12-18-0014.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.1-2002-12-21-1710.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.1.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.2-2002-12-23-0720.tar.gz
 ...
naim-0.11.5.8-2003-06-03-1123.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.8.tar.gz
naim-0.11.5.tar.gz

0.11.5.8-2003-06-03-1123 is the last pre-release before 0.11.5.8, and shows
up before 0.11.5.8 in ls. The only problem is the lack of .0's that leave
0.11.5's pre-releases in the right spot, but sticks the 0.11.5 release after
all of its subordinate releases.

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