- From: Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:46:03 +0200
- To: "Arthur Barstow" <art.barstow@nokia.com>, "Marcos Caceres" <m.caceres@qut.edu.au>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:39:35 +0200, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com> wrote: >> Even though I originally pushed for having strings in the version >> identifier, after reconsideration I think we should drop back to the >> original proposal of just using non-negative integers delimited by a >> "." (as Firefox, and Yahoo!'s Widget engine currently does): >> >> eg. 0.1, 1.0, 1.101.03, etc > > I tend to agree the original proposal (just using non-negative numbers) > should be sufficient for v1.0. > > If there is a compelling Use Case for a richer syntax that is addressed > in a deployed system, perhaps that syntax could be considered in a > subsequent version of the spec. I can live with the non-negative integers as well, so perhaps we should revert to using them? The only compelling use case I can think of now, is for forking and branching purposes similar to what you find for debian packages. It is however likely that any such implementation would have its own package deployment mechanism anyway, and could handle the updates themselves, outside of what widgets do. -- Arve Bersvendsen Developer, Opera Software ASA http://www.opera.com/
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