"Nicolas" == Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com> writes:
Nicolas> On 2/28/06, Roland Levillain <roland@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com> writes:
Nicolas> [...] Nicolas> PS: Due to a rubygem version numbering weakness versions are Nicolas> encoded as follow: Nicolas> 0.5.2.4 means 0.5_beta4 (alpha = 1, beta = 2, ...)
I'm pretty sure Debian had the same problem some years ago. Ah, reinventing the wheel. :P
Nicolas> Yes but I want speed them either by giving them our Version Nicolas> class, or by making them more abstract in front of version. Nicolas> In fact their choice is not so bad, they prefer a strong (but Nicolas> boring) version numbering system than let people choose a too Nicolas> exotic one. It was just a joke. I just wanted to emphasize that computer scientists are (very) often faced to the same problems. :)