[build2] Packaging an External Library without any Versioning Scheme

Boris Kolpackov boris at codesynthesis.com
Thu Jul 6 13:40:12 UTC 2023


Markus Pawellek via users <users at build2.org> writes:

> Only to make sure that I do not get it the wrong way:
> When you say '0.0.Z' then with 'Z' you mean a natural number
> that I will manually provide as package version myself, don't you?

Right, Z here is from the X.Y.Z notation, meaning that you fix
the major (X) and minor (Y) components to zero and only increment
the patch (Z).


> It is not like '0.1.0-a.z' where 'z' will automatically be deduced
> by the version module of the build system but this time only as date
> component?

No, but you can use this automatic snapshot functionality with such
versions, say 0.0.1-a.0.z.



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