Next steps

[Andreas Davour]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Robert Dodier wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:45 AM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>
>> I favor something like this because it would be nice to have prerelease versions of ASDF that perform version checks properly.
>>
>> What I mean is, if we are going to add a feature in version 3.4, right now that would be in a prerelease version with a version number of something like 3.3.5.22
>>
>> It would be a lot better for realistic testing if we could instead use 3.4.0-alpha1 or 3.4.0-1 and have ASDF know that 3.4.0-1 comes before 3.4.0, not after.
>
> Hi Robert, hi everyone. I haven't been following closely, but while
> you are working out details, let me just mention that I recommend
> against version numbers that require special interpretation to
> discover their ordering, e.g. 3.4.0-1 < 3.4.0.
>
> Mostly I'm just thinking that somebody's not going to get the memo
> (it's usually me).

Yeah, I find that one odd as well.

-andreas

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