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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: release 3 of the DJGPP port of GNU grep 2.5.3 uploaded.
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:29:45 -0800 (PST)
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Manuel Collado schrieb:
> Juan Manuel Guerrero escribi�:
> > [snip]
> > Neitherless, if DJ do not object I would suggest to change the
> > actual naming convention and adopt one similar to the one
> > that uses cygwin.  This is something like this:
> >   foobar123-1[bsd].zip
> > or
> >   foobar20080123-1[bsd].zip
> > The first means th package name followed by the version
> > number followed by release number (1 in this case).   We also
> > keep the b,d and s letters to code the type of package content.
> > The second version is for CVS checkouts or something similar
> > where the checkout timestamp is used as version number.
> > Suggestions, objections, comments are welcome.
>
> Just another possibility:
>
> - Use the current naming convention for the first release of each port.
> - Insert a 'rx' release designator before the [bsd] suffix for second
> and subsequent releases: xxx123b.zip -> xxx123r2b.zip -> xxx123r3b.zip

It seems a good idea to me.
If possible, the primary goal should be to retain the used
naming scheme.  The vast mayority of the ports will have
only one release and in that case there is no reason to
add something to the package name.  If a bug fix release
is needed a release identifier could be add.


> > I do not want to have to answer user questions like "which one of the
> > releases is the better one?" or "what shall I download?".
>
> Using the same name for really different releases is even worse. A lot
> of users asking for help will insist in that their DJGPP environments
> are up-to-date when in fact the aren't

Agreed.


Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero