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Ambiguities in lts versioning #20

Open 4e6 opened 6 years ago

4e6 commented 6 years ago

The last update revealed that current naming can be ambiguous. There is a conflict between lts-1.10 and lts-11.0 which result to lts-110 Nix key, see stackage/default.nix

Nix doesn't allow dots in the attribute keys. Removing the dots, the standard Nix way to deal with that seems doesn't work in our case.

Come up with a different naming scheme.

dhess commented 6 years ago

Nixpkgs generally uses underscore (_) to replace . in package names that include versions, so one idea that's consistent with Nixpkgs would be, e.g., lts-11_0 and lts-1_10.

4e6 commented 6 years ago

As far as I remember, back in the days, Nixpkgs used this particular naming for Stackage LTS releases, so I decided to inherit it.

Sounds good. Let's stick to the underscore character instead of the dots since it is the established naming.