Re: [PATCH v3] gnu: Add bullet.

[Mark H Weaver]

Tomas Cech <address@hidden> writes:

> At Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:09:22 -0500,
> David Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> > +(define-public bullet
>> > +  (package
>> > +    (name "bullet")
>> > +    (version "2.82")
>> > +    (source (origin
>> > +              (method url-fetch)
>> > +              (uri (string-append 
>> > "https://bullet.googlecode.com/files/bullet-";
>> > +                                  version "-r2704.tgz"))
>> 
>> I remember there being some discussion about dashes in version numbers,
>> and I can't remember the outcome.  If there's no issue, I think that the
>> "-r2704" should be part of the version number string.
>
> I'm pretty sure that this version is generally refered as '2.82' only, even 
> on their own pages:
> http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/?p=393.
>
> Gentoo has 2.82:
> http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-physics/bullet
>
>
> Debian is referring to that as 2.82-r2704:
> https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/misc/bullet

I agree with David, and Debian.  The fact that they include "-r2704" in
their tarball name suggests that they might release a newer version
called "2.82-r2705", and I want Guix to be able to answer the question
"which version is newer?".  If 2.82-r2705 fixes a problem, I want to be
able to see if the version I have installed still has that problem.
Does that make sense?

    Regards,
      Mark