[UI] Dev image Naming convention

[Ken G. Brown]

At 8:09 PM +0200 4/13/08, Damien Cassou apparently wrote:
>Hi Ken,
>
>squeak-dev releases already saw a lot of different naming schemes. The
>current one is the best I found currently. If you have any idea on how
>to improve, please tell me. The last number will nearly always be 1 so
>it's no big deal. You could also change the 'dev' to 'ken' for
>example.

Don't get me wrong, the current convention seems pretty good. Here's a pretty good rundown on software versioning <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning>
Actually just adding a character at the end would work I guess. However if you changed from 'dev' in the middle, to 'dev' at the end, that would also do it.
Before doing so tho, we should have a look at the Versioning link to see if there are ideas for improvement. It seems like your image naming conventions are a bit stuck with keeping synch with whatever the release naming convention is, as well.

>If you have anything in your custom images that you think can fit in
>my dev images, please tell me.

I've been following Keith's recommendations at <http://installer.pbwiki.com> for the most part except tidy and clean and am sometimes unsure of what is already in the dev image and what is not. Question-do you use Installer for building the dev images? If not, are there some issues with doing that? I haven't looked closely at how you build. Perhaps a dev image build script on the Installer wiki would be good.

>I also like to have updated tools, that's why I made the dev-images
>the first time.

Yep! Appreciate it...

Ken G. Brown

>Greetings,
>
>Damien Cassou
>
>On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>> Just a minor issue thought regarding dev image naming convention...
>>
>>  When you release, I find that I bring a fresh dev image and changes into a new folder with the same name, then open it, and immediately save as new version giving the following:
>>  sq3.10-7159dev08.04.1     - this is the folder
>>     sq3.10-7159dev08.04.1.changes
>>    sq3.10-7159dev08.04.1.image
>>     sq3.10-7159dev08.04.2.changes
>>    sq3.10-7159dev08.04.2.image
>>
>>  which is good, because the versions end up in the right order.
>>
>>  Small problem would come if you released a sq3.10-7159dev08.04.2 since there would be a naming conflict because I already have one of those.
>>  I would not be putting it into the same folder in any case, but there would then be versions on my system with same names, with totally different meanings.
>>
>>  Perhaps you have found this as well.
>>
>>  The issue is a side effect of how Squeak figures out the name for the new version, and  maybe that is what you do to get the name in the first place.
>>
>>  No biggy, but  this will most likely apply to other release versions too so if we give it some thought, it might be helpful.
>>
>>  As you might have guessed, messy versioning systems is one of my pet peeves! :)
>>  I haven't really looked into it seriously but one would think version numbering must have been beaten to death somewhere already, wouldn't you think?
>>
>>  Any ideas?
>>
>>  Love the dev releases by the way.
>>  I'm now able to build my customized image from your new releases via Installer in about 15 minutes, loading all Keith's stuff, everything I need to use VMMaker, all my own work, reloaded custom named Workspaces from text files with various snippets and stuff I need to keep around, etc., etc.
>>
>>  It drives me crazy to know that someone somewhere has fixed stuff that might be an issue I would run into, therefore I like to keep up to date. Don't know how people can stand to work in old images.
>>
>>  Ken G. Brown
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