Missing issue: Version string format

[Volker Berlin]

Why you does not create a standard class (for example 
java.util.Version)? There are also other spec that need it. 
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223

Volker Berlin


Am 24.03.2016 um 00:36 schrieb mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> 2016/3/21 8:43:52 -0700, david.lloyd at redhat.com:
>> On 03/21/2016 08:49 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> On 03/11/2016 04:13 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>> The current java.lang.module.ModuleDescriptor.Version class contains the
>>>> comment:
>>>>
>>>> "Vaguely Debian-like version strings, for now.
>>>> "This will, eventually, change."
>>>>
>>>> At some point the syntax and semantics of version designators has to be
>>>> worked out and agreed upon.  Ideally the scheme would be compatible with
>>>> as many existing widely deployed schemes as possible in terms of allowed
>>>> syntax, and as much as possible, collation order (at least within the
>>>> context of other modules from the same versioning scheme).
>>> Judging from the lack of response, I assume that nobody has done any
>>> work on this, so I have a proposal.
>> I just updated to the latest code and it looks like last week the scheme
>> was updated.
> Yes; among other things there's now an actual (initial) specification, as
> you've seen [1].
>
>> I would reframe this discussion into a proposal a few changes from the
>> existing code.
>>
>> ...
> I'll reply to your proposal in due course, but for now to track it I've
> created http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#VersionSyntax .
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://download.java.net/java/jigsaw/docs/api/java/lang/module/ModuleDescriptor.Version.html
>