[gobolinux-devel] Version-comparison viewer for packages/recipes/repos

[Hisham]

On Jan 10, 2008 3:14 PM, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> There are a few apps with highly confusing version numbers. For example,
> Expect <http://expect.nist.gov/> has a released 5.44.0 and 5.44.1, but
> they are "recalled": 5.43.0 is the actual latest version (as used by
> Linux-From-Scratch dev. version, for example).

"Recalled" versions can be handled by removing them from the repo.

> And there have been
> worse offenders on occasion, for example Adium (luckily OSX-only; see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium for the horrendous history).  I think
> it might be beneficial to provide a way to override the default
> version-ordering.  Also there are some apps that are renamed while being
> the same thing, such as gaim->pidgin or ethereal->wireshark... but those
> usually don't cause any real trouble.

Name changes can be handled by CompatibilityList when needed, but are
usually not needed for end-user applications.

>  It's more the above situations,
> or other non-renamings like Qt(3 vs. 4) that cause trouble...

Dependency ranges "Qt >= 3, < 4" can already handle that.

-- Hisham