[plt-scheme] proposal for indicating planet package version numbers

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:

> It would be nice to have just one version.
>
> If we can use the user-supplied version, all the better as normally
> you tag your version and export it first so users know what they are
> getting (or at least you can keep track of what you are giving them).
>   

Robby Findler wrote:
> PLaneT uses the version numbers in a non-trivial way to determine what
> version should match a particular require. I don't think we can just
> get rid of them (and the protocols surrounding them). You can read
> more about it in Jacob's paper:
>
> http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jacobm/pubs/planet.pd
I read Grant's suggestion differently.

Currently there are two sets of version numbers.

   1. The PLaneT version (major + minor version)
   2. The user version

Removing the special status of the user version makes sense to me.
For the few packages that need it, the author can state it in, say,
the first line of the package description.

/Jens Axel