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From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14320344-df5f-c2b2-e709-ae7335fd3782@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wp3gs87a.fsf@Rainer.invalid>


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On 2017-10-27 14:26, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form
>> e:v-r, where is an epoch.  Currently setup doesn't parse these
>> correctly when reading installed.db.  In case ScanFindVisitor is used,
>> there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons.
>> The reading is done by Win32 functions, and the illegal characters
>> like ':' aren't translated.
> 
> I don't really think it's worth anybody's while to introduce support for
> a feature (epochs) that everone else decided should not be used.  Do we
> really want to use epochs and what for?

On the contrary, I have argued that we *do* need epoch to deal with
occasions where versions go backwards.  I did however say that I wasn't
keen on using them to work around CPAN's unique versioning issues, as it
may inflate quickly in that particular scenario.

-- 
Yaakov


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-27 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-27 18:47 Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 2/3] Bump the installed.db version to 4 Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 1/3] Remove the function filemanip.cc:base Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 3/3] Remove the ScanFindVisitor class Ken Brown
2017-10-27 19:27 ` [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers Achim Gratz
2017-10-27 19:33   ` Ken Brown
2017-10-27 19:48   ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-27 20:31   ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2017-10-30 15:58   ` Jon Turney
2017-10-31 10:06     ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-31 11:21       ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-31 16:22         ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-31 18:16         ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-31 18:32           ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-30 15:55 ` Jon Turney

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