On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Simon Urbanek
wrote:
[...]
>
> That's not what it means in R - the number after the dash *is* the patch
> level. The point is that the semantics of the dash are different in the two
> standards and so is the interpretation of the components. That's why I said
> ear
On Oct 7, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Simon Urbanek
> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> [...]
> e.g. quoting the spec: "Build metadata SHOULD be ignored when determining
> version precedence."
>
> Indeed, although 'SHOULD'
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Simon Urbanek
wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>
[...]
> e.g. quoting the spec: "Build metadata SHOULD be ignored when determining
> version precedence."
>
Indeed, although 'SHOULD' means that it is only a recommendation. And the
build met
On Oct 5, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Simon Urbanek
> wrote:
> Gabor,
>
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>
> > Simon,
> >
> > I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am not suggesting anarchy,
> > completely the opposite.
> >
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Simon Urbanek
wrote:
> Gabor,
>
> On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
>
> > Simon,
> >
> > I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am not suggesting anarchy,
> completely the opposite.
> >
> > Semantic versioning as defined on http://semver.org was
Gabor,
On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> Simon,
>
> I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am not suggesting anarchy,
> completely the opposite.
>
> Semantic versioning as defined on http://semver.org was designed exactly for
> being able to order the versions, and being
Simon,
I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am not suggesting anarchy,
completely the opposite.
Semantic versioning as defined on http://semver.org was designed exactly
for being able to order the versions, and being able to express release
candidates, alpha and beta builds, etc. An exampl
Gabor,
what you propose is not really feasible, because R relies on the fact that it
can meaningfully order the the versions as to determine the update order. If
you use arbitrary strings then ordering becomes random - that's why git commit
hashes are so useless for this purpose. The fact that
Dear R developers,
(http://bugs.r-project.org/ seems to be down, so I am writing a feature
request here.)
It would be great to allow semantic version numbers for packages. See
http://semver.org/ for details.
The problem I am having is that I am setting up a nightly build server, and
there is no
