[oe] [RFC, PATCH] distros: prettier notation for dev snapshots version strings

[Antonio Ospite]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:07:53 -0800
Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Antonio Ospite <ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:14:13 -0800
> > Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Antonio Ospite
> >> <ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:
> >> > Make archives names look a little better. Compare the current:
> >> >  minimal-.dev-snapshot-20100216-i686-linux-armv5te-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
> >> > to the proposed:
> >> >  minimal-dev.snapshot.20100216-i686-linux-armv5te-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> may be just getting rid of that '-.' and using just '-' would be enough ?
> >> is there any advantage of using . over -
> >>
> >
> > I thought that using some dot-notation would make more clear both that
> > the string indicates a _version_ and that it is a single field on its
> > own.
> 
> if there a post processing tool that would benefit  from this  then I
> would say its fine.
> 

Not that I know of. The benefit is mainly aesthetic.

Regards,
   Antonio

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