Re: Integrating package.el

[Štěpán Němec]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:18:32PM +0100, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:37:43PM +0100, Jonas Bernoulli wrote:
> > Speaking of version strings, are there any conventions how an author
> > should version his packages? Currently when I make edits after a
> > release and make them public while not wanting to release yet another
> > version I usually just add a "+" after the version.
> > 
> > 0.1 -> 0.1+ -> .... -> 0.1+ -> 0.2
> 
> [just a thought:]
> Maybe using something compatible with what `version-to-list' and friends
> can understand?
... which is actually the case even with the above:

(version-to-list "0.1+")
=> (0 1 -3)

so it's treated like an alpha release by default.