Increasing the size of VERSION in tabular status output

[Gregory Lutostanski]

Perhaps also using the utf-8 ellipsis (…) would save some characters as
well.

--Greg

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:09 AM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> We've been experimenting with the new application-version-set feature in
> Juju 2.0 in the OpenStack charms team; it provides a much needed way for a
> charm to indicate which version of an OpenStack component is deployed at
> any given point in time.
>
> We've come up with an approach that either use the upstream version of the
> principle component being deployed, falling back to the codename for an
> OpenStack release - for deployment from source or prior to the packages
> being installed for example.
>
> However, we're finding that 7 chars is a bit limiting in the default
> tabular status output - for example:
>
>   9.0.0~b3 (truncates to 9.0....)
>   icehouse (truncates to iceh...)
>
> Could this field be expandable on demand? I think our longest example
> would currently be:
>
>   13.0.0~rc1 (10 chars)
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
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