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[Ricardo Kirkner <ricardo.kirkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:26 PM, David Pitkin <david.pitkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Developers should not re-use a version number, this second internal only
> version number only adds to any confusion about "what version" of the app
> either from customer service or from taking to a developer. With that
> simple restriction we seem to solve many problems.
>

Correct, we don't have a second internal only version anymore, we use
whatever is provided by the developer (initially, later this will be
extracted from the click package metadata itself).

>
> If we have a large number of developers who want to resubmit and not up
> their version number we could add this feature at a later date.
>
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:54:42 -0300, Ricardo Kirkner <
>> ricardo.kirkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This sounds quite close to what I had understood myself. Since the
>> package
>> > is being uploaded via devportal/myapps/sca, we already know the version
>> of
>> > the new binary.
>>
>> Could you expand a little on this please? I'm not familiar with what the
>> developer will be presented with to upload a new version.
>>
>> I assume you mean that they have a form that requires them to specify a
>> new version, and an upload form.
>>
>> If that's the case then we can just store the file in click updown
>> associated with the (app id, version) pair.
>>
>> We have a choice of rejecting or replacing if we already have a file for
>> the pair. I think we want to lean towards replacing, so that the
>> developer can have multiple goes at a new version before
>> publishing. However, if the upload form allows re-using a version then
>> it would allow developers to replace a published file, regardless of any
>> review process that we have. Is that ok?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James
>>
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