Allow "disk" packages to specify their own version

[jhclark]

Some packages with stable release cycles may be installed system-wide and have a well-established version number (e.g. SRILM). These are generally used with the disk "versioner", which does not support version numbering, but merely symlinks one directory into another. In the case of these packages, we would like to allow the version to be specified by the package rather than the versioner (e.g. "V1.3"). It's unclear how to best implement this.

[dowobeha]

Please elaborate with an example of what you would like this to look like.

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012, Jonathan Clark wrote:

Some packages with stable release cycles may be installed system-wide and have a well-established version number (e.g. SRILM). These are generally used with the disk "versioner", which does not support version numbering, but merely symlinks one directory into another. In the case of these packages, we would like to allow the version to be specified by the package rather than the versioner (e.g. "V1.3"). It's unclear how to best implement this.

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[jhclark]

Frankly, I have no idea what it should look like. I'm just noting the use case and lack of a current solution.