Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: category version limited to digits and dots

[Milan Cvetkovic]

Greek0 wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 12:24:48 -0400
> Milan Cvetkovic <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why is there a limitation in arch that the project version must only 
> > contain digits and dots?
>
>
> I don't know, that's just the way it is. It's a little annoyance, but in
> reality it just does not matter. There are lots of ways around it.
>
>
> > I wanted to organize my archive this way:
> >
> > project
> >    project--v1
> >       project--v1--devo
> >           ...
> >           .. when 1 development is finished, seal it
> >           .. and open project--ver-2--devo
> >       project--v1--rel1.0
> >           .. starts as tag from project--ver-1.0--devo
> >           .. includes some patches from it before
> >           .. 1.1 is released
> >       project--v1--rel1.1
> >           .. ...
>
>
> It's not a real problem. Just call your branches that way:
> project--v1-devo--0
> project--v1-release--1.0
> project--v1-release--1.1
>
> Think about it. The exact names of your branches just don't matter. You
> don't even have to put your version into the version field of the branch
> name. Eg:
> project--v1-devo--0
> project--v1-release-1.0--0
> project--v1-release-1.0--0
  .........................^

And this makes the "version part" useless.

Nevertheless, this is what I ended up with, and I can see from other 
posts (and archives around the "net") some other people, too.


> Doesn't look pretty, but you can do it, and tla doesn't care.

The same way tla does not care about branch name, I think it should not 
care about "version". We are forced to work around it, and at the end we 
don't use version part at all.

It would be good if "tla executives" would reconsider this "executive 
decision" :-)

Milan.

> Cheers,
> Greek0
>
>
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