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→Package version confusion and other nonsense: Docs say it is not the software revision
:In my recommended best practice, one's own WPKG package 'revision' has no relationship to the program's version number, because you might update your packaging, because you made a mistake or an improvement, separate of any newly released software update from the software vendor. Do you see what I mean? I think that by linking the two, you teach people who're learning WPKG that the WPKG package revision should be identical to the binary application revision, which is definitely not the case. I very much agree with you about people recommending security updates, which is why I often delete such text. [[User:Pete|Pete Boyd]] 12:12, 26 July 2010 (CEST)
::Per http://wpkg.org/Packages.xml: "revision - user created integer to represent the "version" of the specific WPKG package for this application. Should be incremented when creating a new release. Not to be confused with the software application's version or revision that the WPKG package is for." I've been putting XXX for the revision when I update a package snippet on the wiki, but either 0 or 1 would be acceptable to me. All of the package snippets should be purged of revision=version, and made consistent in other respects such as indentation, newlines, etc. I'm willing to do it but I don't want to overstep. [[User:JohnD|JohnD]] 20:42, 26 July 2010 (CEST)