[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2spec and version number

[Pierre-Yves]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:53 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Friday 29 May 2009 06:53:54 Pierre-Yves wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I would like your opinion regarding: [Bug 503108] New: R2spec-2.5.2
> > loses Version information
> >
> > It basically says that when the package version is 2.3-50 R2spec only
> > retrieve 2.3 as being the version number.
> > To me and based on the packages R-abind, R-acepack, R-mAR (and some
> > other that I didn't list) this is not a bug.
> >
> > Do you agree with me ?
> 
> I agree that we are loosing information in the version and that on the other 
> hand the dash is just a fancy replacement for the dot.
> 
> So we could agree to replace all the dashes in R package versions by dots and 
> be done with it.
> 
> Whatever we decide we should apply this uniformly to all R packages that have 
> this numbering.

Thanks for the feedback José :)

Spot, does the guideline say something about this ?
Should they ?
Should we bring the discussion to a broader audience ?

Regards,
Pierre