On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 03/11/16 01:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Let's just hope nobody starts using tex version numbering and so on. >> Dates might be used in cases where upstream doesn't publish sane >> revisions (in fact, texlive versions are dates, albeit at the year >> level). >> >> I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, I just could see where it might >> crash into reality at some point. >> > > This is just the revision portion though, that's not part of the > version number from upstream. IIRC, the revision is meant to only be > used for gentoo ebuild changes, isn't it? >
Correct, I intended to comment on the version, not revision. However, the 18 digit limit could still become an issue there with pathological cases like Tex (which basically communicates 1 bit of information in each digit it adds). I still don't think it makes sense to design things around seemingly-clever converging numbering schemes. -- Rich
