snap list/find output

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Yes, we discussed this online today and one way to do this is precisely to
go with what John suggests and shorten the version numbers that are
unreasonable. That becomes a strong encouragement for them to remain short
enough to be readable without additional commands.

The only detail here is that we should be careful about how we shorten the
versions. For example, assuming

    1.23.45.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13

We should shorten it as something along the lines of

    1.23.45...12.13

Instead of, say,

    1.23.4(...)2.13

or

    1.23.45.6.7...

(actual lengths TBD)

Of course, there's always the chance that one decides to use a version that
cannot be reasonably broken down like this, but then it sounds okay that
they don't read as nicely either.



On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:59:26AM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > Looking at my 16.04 installation for more relevant data, the max length
> for
> > versions is 52, but the average is 12 and the median is 7. The output of
> > unfiltered dpkg -l starts the summary at column 129, despite displaying
> > only the name, version, arch, and summary.
> >
> > I don't think we can win if the goal is having meaningful output for
> > everything under 80 columns.
>
> Is there anything we can do to encourage version numbers to be tolerably
> short? It's a new world after all and we can suggest best practices.
>
> Thanks
>
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