<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/08/13 20:14, Matthew Flatt wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:20130829191424.0EF6B650130@mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Package versions are intended to be like semver, but they differ syntactically because * the major number should be part of the package name, and * the major number "1" is written "". So, write xdgbasedir version 0.1.0 as package name "xdgbasedir0" and version "1.0".</pre> </blockquote> Thanks, I was wondering how to signify a package whose api is unstable. I have renamed the package accordingly. Maybe the docs should clarify this: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/how-to-create.html#%28part._.Naming_and_.Designing_.Packages%29">http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/how-to-create.html#(part._.Naming_and_.Designing_.Packages)</a> At the moment they only talk about signifying v2 as package2, and hence, to me, it makes it look as if you should keep it as just the package name, until you are ready to release v2 or above. It may be a good idea to separate the version number with a hyphen. So package-2 instead of package2. The reason I think this would be useful is if you were providing an interface to another library such as libgtk2, you may decide to completely alter the racket api, but still ultimately use the libgtk2 library. So you could go from libgtk2-0 to libgtk2 to libgtk2-2, as opposed to libgtk20 to libgtk2 to libgtk22 which looks strange and has an unclear meaning. Personally I would also be in favour, if this root were taken, to give no special privilege to the v1 major release and have that hyphenated as libgtk2-1 as well for consistency. Especially as I wouldn't be surprised if the minor version eventually gets tacked on to the package name as a way around the version problems. Although this is all repeating information contained in the packages info.rkt anyway. bfn Lorry <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- vLife Systems Ltd Registered Office: The Meridian, 4 Copthall House, Station Square, Coventry, CV1 2FL Registered in England and Wales No. 06477649 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vlifesystems.com">http://vlifesystems.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>