[arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines
I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it.
The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1 and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan.
I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make the version 0.90_pre1
Dist::Zilla a release automation tool also allows for using a format _TRIAL which is not yet popular on cpan but does happen should pacman add a _trial ? to the list of options? I think we could just use _pre here too.
On 30/04/10 22:55, Caleb Cushing wrote:
I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it.
The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1 and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan.
I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make the version 0.90_pre1
Why? 0.90_pre1 is also greater than 0.90.1... do you want to try that again?
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Allan McRae allan@archlinux.org wrote:
Why? 0.90_pre1 is also greater than 0.90.1... do you want to try that again?
sorry should that be 0.90pre1 ? or does one just have to leave the 1 off? in previous different thread you said rc1 would work.... I'm assuming that pre works the same way as rc guess I've inadvertantly added an _ though.
for right now I'm on drugs... or cpan is... probably both. either way I should be ignored on this topic.
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