Universal Package Versioning

tyler_5201

I like the setup of Universal Packages, however, the vendor installer packages I deal with (spread across .zip, .iso, .exe, and .msi) do not have friendly version names - certainly not semantic versioning.

Their software is typically in the format of this: 2024 SP3 R2 P1, where the base version would be something like 2024, and then as the software is changed, but no major version is released, the service pack, revision, and patch numbers increase. I could account for this if the semantic versioning allowed 4 segments, but it only allows two. Is there a better way to store their files than using Universal packages (I could use the Asset feed, but the Universal looked cleaner)?

I do like the Universal packages because I was going to bundle the PDFs with the installers.

atripp

hi @tyler_5201,

For a case like this, I'd recommend using a custom metadata field like _vendorVersion or something like that? Of course, that's going to be relatively easy.

The hart part is to "map" the vendor numbers to a SemVer. I would look at the data, and decide how you want to "pack" them into three segments.

2024.3.201 might work, assuming there are less than 100 revisions per service pack. Or maybe 2024.302.1. The number is really just for you, so whatever makes sense to you :)

Cheers,
Alana

tyler_5201

Thanks Alana,

I think I've developed a workable pattern for the vendor's versioning system. Are any of the fields searchable in the User Interface, whether pre-defined or custom?

dean-houston

Hi @tyler_5201,

The UI package search is pretty basic, so it's not going to look through those metadata properties. They are something you could obviously search/find through the API.

Depending on what you're trying to do, we do have a Whitelabel feature that makes the UI a lot easier to consume for end-users:

In particular, the "Tile View" on Universal Packages may help. But it's not very popular and is something we work closely with our users on, so let us know if that's of interest.

-- Dean