Date versions: (Was: Humble comments...)

["Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <kingsley@loaner.com>]

Hi Andrius,

You politely proposed using download date as
version for CCD.

You're smart.

Maybe you already know this, but Debian's Policy
Manual has a sub-sub-section called

    "3.2.1. Version numbers based on dates"

If you haven't checked it out yet, maybe it would
be 

    interesting, or even 

    helpful.

It's at

    3.2.1. Version numbers based on dates
    https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#version-numbers-based-on-dates

Thanks and kind regards,
Kingsley

PS: I agree my ginormous spread sheet summarizing
    life span experiments may interest Debian's
    Med team.

    Through no fault of yours, I failed to explain 
    the reason why I asked if the PDB Chemical
    Component Dictionary might compliment it.

    I wondered if data in the CCD might add value
    to it for synergistic technical and biological
    reasons.

    My ginormous spread sheet summarizing life
    span experiments is currently a for-profit
    project.

    But, I'd love to find a crowd funding guru who
    could show me how to 

        get paid and

        publish it under a permissive license, like
        the PDB Chemical Component Dictionary, so it
        could 

            be part of Debian and

            expedite research to

                slow, and maybe even

                reverse

            the scourge of aging.

On 06/23/2023 14:16, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> Hi Kingsley,
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> 
> On 2023-06-23 10:17, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> > You politely and confidently invited comments.
> > 
> > 1.) Thanks!
> > 
> > 2.) I like your use of the concise "TL;DR" (ie:
> >      "Too Long; Don't Read").
> > 
> > 3.) Sometimes I shorten it even more, to "TLDR".
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> > 4.) How is the PDB Chemical Component Dictionary
> >      licensed, if at all? Is it in the public domain?
> 
> It is licensed as CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
> 
> > 5.) Could it somehow compliment a big computer spread
> >      sheet summarizing life span experiments, where
> >      a column named "intervention" contains the
> >      names of molecules, like "vitamin c" and
> >      "glycine"[1]?
> 
> This might be of interest for Debian Med team. Do you envisage this body of
> data being used by software packages in Debian?
> 
> > 6.) Could debian packages have version numbers
> >      based on dates the CCD was downloaded?
> 
> I propose using download date as version for CCD. Or do you mean other
> software packages? If so, this would be somewhat unusual, albeit some
> Javascript packages seem to carry versions of their parts.
> 
> > [1] World's biggest collection of the results of
> >      life span experiments
> >      https://kingsleymorse.ch/life_extension.html#preprocessed_life_span_data
> 
> Best wishes,
> Andrius
> 

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