From dewar@adacore.com Sun Jan 15 18:53:08 2006 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-gr0 (2005-09-13) on aldar.unige.ch X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0-gr0 X-Gmail-Received: 7b106e59be4f6f6717285cb57d2f598b1951b3e9 Delivered-To: gshapovalov@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.140.15 with SMTP id n15cs16730nzd; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.77.16 with SMTP id z16mr4355713nza; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:53:11 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 36si2517976nza.2006.01.15.09.53.11; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 134.68.220.30 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of dewar@adacore.com) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([205.232.38.5]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EyC3z-00016E-6M for george@gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:53:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB0D48CC19 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:53:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09011-01-8 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:53:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp10.gnat.com [205.232.38.232]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7156648CBE0 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:53:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43CA8C04.9020608@adacore.com> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:53:08 -0500 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Shapovalov Subject: Re: inclusion og gnat-gpl-2005 in Gentoo Linux References: <200601141738.25754.george@gentoo.org> <200601141825.57882.george@gentoo.org> <43C936CF.2070700@adacore.com> <200601151712.04378.george@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200601151712.04378.george@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nile.gnat.com X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=1.0.1 X-UID: Status: R X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: George Shapovalov wrote: >Dear Robert. > >Thanks for yor replies. >I have another question, this time about versioning of gnat-gpl releases. >Normally we are trying to stick as close as possible to what upstream >provides. However in this case in gnat-gpl-2005 the 2005 part seems related >to the language standard rather than a particular release number. You >mentioned that the package name will change with a new release. Could you >please elaborate on the expected naming/versioning scheme? I would like to >follow it if possible with our ebuilds. > > not yet decided >Right now we are debating whether to go with a gnat-gpl-2005 name, followed >by, possibly 2006.1, 2006.2.. or to go with a backend gcc versions adding a >specific gnat release number, thus making it 3.4.5.1 for this release, >3.4.5.2 for another gcc-3.4.5 based and so on.. > > if the sources are not identical, it would be good for your name to distinguish itself somehow >Since we have to repackage and mirror source ourselves (as we discussed), this >is easy to do and gives us an added benefit of simpler SLOT logic - this is a >way we track ABI/API incompatible versions that can be installed in parallel, >as the SLOT logic then will be common for both gnat-gpl and gnat-gcc (the FSF >provided compiler). But if 2005 stands for a particular release number and >you are planning to release gnat-gpl-2006 in the future then the first option >becomes a natural choice for us to follow. > > 2005 is indeed a reference to the language version, and we have not yet decided how to rename the next version. >Thanks! > >George > >