Re: Reverting package to a previous

[Ville Skyttä <ville skytta iki fi>]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 22:37 +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 15:18 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > 
> > Then there is another possibility.  Keep the regular erlang packages
> > as is and release "erlangR10B" packages.  The update wings3d and
> > erlang_sdl and any other packages that rely on the old erlang version
> > to depend (and link against) on this new package.
>
> That would make sense,

There's also a precedent of naming stuff like this as compat-foo, and I
think it's generally preferred over version based suffixing nowadays, at
least when there's no intention to keep permanently shipping many
versions of something.

>  since it seems that there are really incompatible
> changes between R10B and R11B.

Yet another case to the pile of recent incompatible upgrades :(