[PD-dev] names of 'pd' tags

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Mar 31 17:35:07 CEST 2008


On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:59 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Hey,
>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/tags/pd/
>> I just added tags for 0.41.0 thru 0.41.2.  Those tags for 'pd' are  
>> a  bit of a mess, so I would like to propose cleaning them up.   
>> First, I  think we can ditch the 'pd-' prefix since they are  
>> already in a
>
> i agree.
>
>> folder called 'pd'.  Second, I think we should use the very  
>> standard  '.' as the separator between numbers.
>
> hmm, miller's versioning scheme has been consistent since (i think  
> at least) pd-0.34-0
> so i don't see a reason to change branch-names to just another  
> standard just because we can. instead i think branch/tag-names of  
> Pd should follow the versioning scheme of Pd as closely as possible.
>

Pd is the only software that I have ever seen that uses "-" to  
separate the minor version.  Not only that, but the "-" is a very  
common separator used to add a package version to packages (like  
Debian, etc.).  Pd's "-" causes problems there.  I see no advantages  
to keeping the "0.39-3" format.

You guys could use feet, inches, pounds and pints since you are  
working with Americans, but I think you'd rather use what the rest of  
the world uses: meters, grams, and liters.

>> - I think we should probably also clean up the "pd-0.39-3",   
>> "pd-0.39-3-again", "pd-0.39-3-oncemore", , "pd-0.39-3-really" to  
>> be  just the right 0.39.3.
>
> hmm, i don't know why these branches are named like that.
> one could argue that the person who created them did so on purpose
> (though probably not)


"0.39.3" is not defined by the tag.  The tag is instead marking the  
code that represents 0.39.3.  If you read the commit comments, those  
tags are because there were problems.  Therefore "0.39.3" should be


>> - do we need the test versions listed in the tags?  There are only  
>> a  couple existing anyway.
>
> again, as these branches had been created, why should we not need  
> them?
>

I am fine with leaving these if someone wants them.

.hc




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