Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The biggest stumbling block to this is how to tell what version is
bigger. Examples:
Is 2.3b before or after 2.3 before or after 2.3f?
Dito for 2.3 and 2.3.0
Dito for 2.4-poopy-2 and 2.4.2
These are just off the top of my head. Things like that exist in our
grimoire, and more. And the answer to all of them is, it depends :/

I've done a fair amount on automating versioning (I even have a
versioning.sh lib) and it's a very nasty subject. If we were to limit
the checking to the standard x.y.z format (when x, y, and z are natural
numbers), then the problem becomes possible to solve nicely.

If we want to suuport more kinds of versioning than that, then a
VERSION_TYPE field will have to be added to DETAILS, or a VERSIONS file
in a spell must be added that contains the version number history.

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 19:04, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Here's an old horse.  :)  We need to be able to have our spells depend on
> versions (i.e. <=, ==, >=, !=, etc.), and not just on the spell.  This
> will add quite the complexity to sorcery, but it is apparent that it will
> help things along.
> 
> Here is one reason:  http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=422
> 
> May also help with certain spells requiring certain versions (i.e. no more
> USEGCC2 required, just have "depends gcc < 3.0" in your DEPENDS file).
> 
> Gentoo uses this fairly well, and I believe that if we want to keep going
> much further, we will need some way to implement this, and to have
> multiple versions installed.
> 
> Ideas,comments?
> 
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sandall                      | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
> eric AT sandall.us                   | http://www.sourcemage.org
> http://www.sandall.us/~sandalle   | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
> http://counter.li.org #196285     | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
> 
-- 


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 
-----------------
PGP public key at
http://wwwkeys.ch.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x92B5D3F1

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part