[Rubygems-developers] Version number format

[David A. Black]

Hi --

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:

> I would like to have "snapshot" gems, that represent the current state 
> of CVS.  Is there a way to specify this with the version number? I've 
> tried 0.3.0-SNAPSHOT (a la "maven") and that didn't work, and I tried 
> "0.3.0cvs" (a la portage) and that didn't work.
> 
> Is there a way to do this currently?  If not, does anyone else think 
> this might be worth having?

I guess I tend to think of gems as releases (with 'gem' suggesting a
certain polish :-) and therefore versionable with numbers alone.  But
there may be scenarios I'm not considering.


David

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