[GRASS5] Package name convention - was: Re: [GRASSLIST:311] Re: Source packages

[Buchan Milne]

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Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:01:45PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>>[moved to developers list]
>>
>>Dear developers,
>>
>>below is a proposal for a modified name convention of GRASS source
>>packages.
>>
>>Should we follow below suggestion?
>
>
> my recommendation is grass-5.0.2.tar.gz,
> ie. $name-$version.tar.gz
> where version is always a triplet, but could also look like
> 5.1.0pre1 pr 5.2.0rc1
> [which implicates my proposal on how to name pre-releases and
> release candidates - well, pretty common in the Free Software
> world]
>
> Using the suffix 'src' indeed is quite useless.
> Instead, binaries should have some suffixes (which must indicate
> the platform anyway).

Does anyone else agree with this? Can it be adopted (and put into
release-management scripts?).

Oh, and while we're discussing pre-releases, any suggestoins on
numbering packages of grass51 from CVS, besides using 5.1.0cvs$date (ie
for a package grass51-5.1.0-0.cvs20030614.1mdk.i586.rpm instead of the
one I currently use:
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/9.1/grass51-5.0.99-0.cvs20030614.1mdk.i586.rpm
)

Regards,
Buchan

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