hugs version numbering convention

Jens Petersen <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:53:33 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hugs.user
Message-ID	<m3oesopnrm.wl%[email protected]>

>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Petersen <[email protected]> wrote on 5th Jan:

    Jens> I would like to make the suggestion that future
    Jens> releases of Hugs are made with a version naming
    Jens> convention that is more sort friendly.  The
    Jens> current "MonYear" versioning scheme is problematic
    Jens> for packagers.

    Jens> ie the current release would be better called say
    Jens> "200311" (using Debian's hugs98 package versioning
    Jens> scheme) than "Nov2003", since this sorts much more
    Jens> easily.

Does this sound reasonable?  Any comments from the
maintainers?

Jens