657630 - Lack of naming convention delays package manager updates

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[mikestitch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27
Build Identifier: js-1.8.5

The naming of the latest source tar makes it difficult for package maintainers to keep up-to-date with the latest releases. Package managers like macports have mechanisms for easily updating to (and verifying) the latest release tar in open source projects.

Please use a naming convention like js-1.8.5.tar.gz for your public source releases.

P.S. Love the SpiderMonkey shell, thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See link above.

Actual Results:  
Unable to update package definition without disabling features like livecheck.

Expected Results:  
Standard naming convention for release tar like js-{maj}.{min}.{rev}.tar.gz.