[plt-scheme] PLaneT: Is there any way that I can control the version number?

Another way to think of this is that 1.3 is the version of the
packaging you did and the version field lets you specify some
non-planet version info.

Robby

On 7/15/07, Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Yes and no. You can set the 'version field in your package's info.ss,
> which will allow you to indicate that your package corresponds to
> version 8 of the original package. But the 1.3 number is controlled
> exclusively by planet; the point of that number is entirely to
> communicate between-package-revisions compatibility information, so we
> purposely chose not to allow package authors to set it themselves.
>
> -jacob
>
> On 7/15/07, Eric Hanchrow <offby1 at blarg.net> wrote:
> > I've been uploading a few versions of a package to PLaneT (it's
> > "foof-loop.plt"), and it's annoying that PLaneT generates its own
> > version number for me, rather than letting me choose my own.  Right
> > now the generated number is 1.3, but I would like it to be 8, since
> > the files in the package are already at version 8 (according to their
> > author's numbering system; I am not the author but am merely packaging
> > the stuff for him).  I would rather there not be a bunch of different
> > version numbers for the same package, since that is confusing; and I
> > would prefer to use his numbers, since they have been around longer.
> >
> > So: is there any way I can tell PLaneT that this is version 8 (short
> > of making seven more uploads, and telling it that each is
> > backwards-incompatible)?
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