On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
In fact I don't like neither force nor epoch. Epoch is just a version prefix, why don't we let the packager to workaround this (KISS)? We can introduce a new separator (now we have one: '.'), for example '#', and let the packager define his favourite pkgversion (maybe epoch in mind), like "1#0.6.2a-2". Epoch just complicates code and leads to "wtf" imho...
Well, of course a new separator is not necessary, packager can do everything with '.', e.g. he can use "1.0.6.2a-2". It is just more readable to the user (and the packager). The key here is that epoch is no more than a simple version prefix, and I think it is needless to introduce %EPOCH% database field etc.
Because this is ugly as hell and it will result in 100+ bug reports and "why is the version number off" questions in the first year. KISS applies both ways- keep the code simple, but keep developers lives from becoming enveloped in the first level of hell, and this suggestion would unfortunately do that. :/ -Dan