Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:32:54PM -0400, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:47:35AM -0400, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> >
> >>Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:03:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >>
> >>--- snipped ---
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Categories, branches, and versions are not orthogonal at all and add
> >>>>unnecessary complexity. Future features cannot differentiate between
> >>>>them because they are used very inconsistently in existing archives.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>No idea what that is supposed to mean. They're just names. Almost
> >>>everything just wants a version specifier, and doesn't care about the
> >>>fact that the '--'s in the string have significance.
> >>
> >>No, they are not just the names.
> >>
> >>Version must consist of digits and dots only.
> >
> >
> >Relevance? To almost every tool, it's just a string that gets passed
> >through.
> 
> They are not orthogonal. It is important to me - a human.

Relevance to *anything*?

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