On 08 Aug 2014, at 16:13, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 08 Aug 2014, at 15:31, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I know this is the proper way of doing it according to semantic versioning. 
>> I was afraid of populating the Metacello config with lots of #version21: 
>> #version211: #version212, etc. 
>> But I also should be able to load a version with the bug, so I guess this is 
>> way.
>> 
>> But... how do I load the latest "released" version of 2.1 ?
>> 
>> Ej:
>> I have:
>> - 2.1.3 (released)
>> - 2.2.4 (released)
>> - 2.3... (development)
>> 
>> If I want to load the latest released version of 2.1, how do I do it without 
>> knowing if the latest is 2.1.3 or 2.1.15?
> 
> mmm… normally, you would move your stable symlink to the newer version. 
> or you can load explicitly. 
> or you can use something with #latestVersionMatching: and siblings (but this 
> one I don’t know, I never used them).

forget it: 

ConfigurationOfBlah project latestVersion: #release. 

that will answer you the latest release version. 

Esteban

> 
> Esteban
> 
>> 
>> Regards!
>> 
>> 
>> Esteban A. Maringolo
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-08-08 10:09 GMT-03:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>:
>> well… my advice is to use semantic versioning (http://semver.org).
>> 
>> in essence:
>> - a package commit is just a commit. The number is a commit number (bah.. is 
>> a little more complicated because the commit info is author-number, but you 
>> got the idea).
>> - metacello configurations work as distribution artifacts, so they should 
>> have an unique and unrepeatable number (unless you are using git and 
>> baselines, in which case it changes). So you should not change the old 
>> version. Instead, you should add a patch number.
>> In your case:
>> 
>> 2.1
>> will become:
>> 2.1.1
>> 
>> and then you can move the #stable symbolic version to 2.1.1
>> 
>> Esteban
>> 
>> On 08 Aug 2014, at 14:53, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > How do you manage released versions updates in Metacello?
>> >
>> > E.g.
>> >
>> > I have a version 2.1, with its spec with a dependency to 'PackageA.11.mcz'.
>> > Later I find a bug which requires a new version of PackageA.11.mcz, 
>> > everything goes ok as in the development/bleedingEdge version, which 
>> > doesn't specify the file name, but how should I "backport" the change?
>> >
>> > What I am doing now is changing the version spec for '2.1' and updating 
>> > the reference to 'PackageA.11.mcz' to 'PackageA.12.mcz', but I'm afraid 
>> > this isn't the proper way of doing this.
>> >
>> > How do you manage this?
>> >
>> > In git I'd merge the commit in the 2.1 version branch, and then the CI 
>> > that depends on such branch would incorporate the change.
>> >
>> > Regards!
>> >
>> > Esteban A. Maringolo
>> 
>> 
>> 
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