[maemo-developers] The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44:17 Juha Kallioinen wrote:
>> And a perfectly good one too! :) It's useful not to change the upstream
>> package version too much so that it's easier to see that a package could
>> use updating.
>
> I agree with all Juha's points (but I would, wouldn't I!).

Simplest solution I can see, whilst still giving the user some
indication of version number (3.4.1 tells you something over 0.0.1):
the Application Manager only shows things of the form (\d+)(\.\d+)*?

So, the example of 2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu6maemo1 would
just appear as 2.0.0 in the view.

Cheers,

Andrew

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