Re: The explanation of epoch in Maximum RPM...

[Darryl Dixon <esrever_otua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Get real.  Using epoch *is* doing it right.  Why on earth should potentially many 1000's of customers be forced to do something manually when the mechanism already exists to do it automatically (epoch)?  Computers and software exist to work *for* us, not against us, and a stupid arbitrary rule categorising epoch as 'bad' when doing this causes real problems for people is just ludicrous.  Epoch is useful, solves a real problem, and isn't particularly hard to live with.  What exactly is the problem?

D


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:29 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Monday, 28 February 2005, at 13:09:11 (+0100),
> Toralf Lund wrote:
>
> > Then how on Earth do you put everything right, if for some reason
> > someone has chosen the wrong versioning scheme for earlier releases?
>
> By doing it right, forcing people to manually upgrade whilst directing
> their anger and frustration at the idiot who caused the problem to
> begin with.
>
> > I think perhaps you missed my point. Should you really do that to
> > someone who used a ridiculous version number, but then saw the error
> > of their ways?
>
> If they released a package with a version number like that, yes.  It's
> called "Natural Selection."  Perhaps you're familiar with it....  :-)
>
> Michael


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