Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Milan Cvetkovic]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:11:39PM -0400, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > Categories, branches, and versions are not orthogonal at all and add
> > > > > > > > unnecessary complexity. Future features cannot differentiate between
> > > > > > > > them because they are used very inconsistently in existing archives.
>
>
> > > > > > No, they are not just the names.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Version must consist of digits and dots only.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Relevance? To almost every tool, it's just a string that gets passed
> > > > > through.
> > > >
> > > > They are not orthogonal. It is important to me - a human.
> > >
> > >
> > > Relevance to *anything*?
> >
> > Yes. I want version to be the project version rather than branch 
> > version. It would be usefull to me - a human. And it is relevant to me.
> > Most Arch archives look too disorganized because of this.
>
>
> Sounds pretty irrelevant to me.

I know that it is irrelevant to you.

But it is you who said that they are just the names, when in fact they 
are not.

All I am trying to say is that there are some users and some potential 
users who do find this quite annoying.

And I presume this is the reason why the original poster put it in his 
"things he does not like about tla".

Milan.