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Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?



On Wednesday 02 October 2013 15:21:48 Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I am packaging a versionless library software maintained via a mercurial
> repository. Is there any custom for this case ?
> If not, can we use the version format 'hgYYYYMMDD' ?

As a user, I don't care about upstream repo. 

You should use a version derived from the date only. This way, you won't be in 
trouble if upstream switches to git.

HTH

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