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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:39:05 +0100
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT lml DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: release 3 of the DJGPP port of GNU grep 2.5.3 uploaded.
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Juan Manuel Guerrero escribió:
> [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

> I still insist that broken old releases must be retired.

Agreed.

> 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

Regards.
-- 
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado