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[Marco Antoniotti]

I understand: I am not expecting ASDF to understand any three part version
in my case.

I'd wager that most cases are covered by the 8-digit timestamp scheme.

All the best

Marco


On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:57 PM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:

> What I meant is that ASDF does not "understand" that 20201015 is a
> three-part version, whose first part is "2020" second is "10" and third is
> "15".
>
> So note that my example is "any version since October 2020." And yours is
> "any version since October *fifteenth* 2020.
>
> On 18 Nov 2021, at 10:53, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>
> Why would ASDF not understand "version later than 20201015"?  I am
> perfectly fine with using the full 8 digit timestamp.
>
> MA
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:24 PM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
> wrote:
>
>> On 18 Nov 2021, at 7:35, Eric Timmons wrote:
>>
>> > On 11/18/21 3:45 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
>> >> Sorry but I am missing something.
>> >>
>> >> It was said in this thread (don't remember who, apologies) that
>> >>
>> >> YYYYMMDD
>> >>
>> >> would work.  Will it?
>> >
>> > Yes. YYYYMMDD is currently a valid version string (assuming it's all
>> > digits). Whatever we choose will allow a superset of what's already
>> > allowed.
>> >
>> > -Eric
>>
>> That's true, but possibly stating the obvious: ASDF does not
>> "understand" a version string like that.  So you can't say "any version
>> since October 2020 will work." Getting something like that to work would
>> be an exercise for the extension protocol.
>>
>> This actually might make a good test case for us to see if the proposed
>> protocol (versioning method keyword initarg for defsystem) makes sense.
>>
>> R
>>
>
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