Re: Package versionning (was: cvs commit: libh/lib/sysinstall Feature.cc)

Thus spake Antoine Beaupre ([email protected]):

> Also, if the regular version is purely advisory, people are going to be 
> *really* confused when they'll see that
> ls-1.1 > ls-1.2

People also will be confused if they expect to see a package xv-3.10a
installed, but can't find them, just because we forbid letters...
That's what I wanted to circumvent.

> than the rule: "don't use it unless you have to. You *can* rely on 
> version checking or snapshot date, in some cases. But only in desperate 
> cases should you fall back to using serial numbers".

sounds good.

> There are regression tests in bin/regression. Are they still passed?

Not tested.

Alex

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