Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:49:22PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Agreed. In my packaging, I've been using 0.0.YYYYMMDD for that
> purpose - assuming that when/if the upstream developers decide to
> actually roll out a release, they'll use something larger than
> 0.0.1 for a version number :)

While admittedly more recognizable for users of Western calendars,
an 8-digit ISO 8601esque datestamp is fairly low-density. With only
a couple more digits, you can have epoch seconds as your version
timestamp (as upstream, I actually just do 0.0.<epoch of commit> for
snapshots of some of my not-yet-ready-for-release projects). Just
remember that they'd need to do more than release "something larger
than 0.0.1" to edge out 0.0.<bignumber>... something on the order of
0.1.x would be needed.
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