Re: The dictatorship of versioning

Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:

So what happens when the programmer updates the human readable version and not the canonical version, or vice versa? Wouldn't it be better to functionally derive one of these two forms from the other? E.g., (defgeneric formatted-version (component version-spec))

Probably. The only advantage I see in PB's suggestion is for people actually reading the system definition's code. But then, don't do that. Use Declt to create the reference manual ;-)

I am also disinclined to add something like the proposed

+1