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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:57:46 -0600
From:      Barry Pederson <barryp@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/32533: new port: databases/db4 (DB v4)
Message-ID:  <3C236A0A.6030405@yahoo.com>
References:  <200112131320.fBDDKMX60644@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011213134905.GA4168@terry.dragon2.net> <20011219145101.C5338@tao.org.uk> <20011219201430.GA75055@terry.dragon2.net> <20011221012544.A13613@tao.org.uk>

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Josef Karthauser wrote:

> 
> I notice that there's a db3-latest too.  What's to become of that?
> (It doesn't look like it was a repocopy of db3, but I imagine that
> it should have been.)


(this has nothing to do with CVS, but more in the naming of these ports)

That notion of using "-latest" in the name was kind of a pain.  In 
hindsight I think it would have been better to have just called it what 
it was: "db33" instead of "db3-latest" (and "db3" should have been 
"db32").

I think this new port should be called "db40" because somewhere down the 
road, there'll probably be a 4.1 version, that'll be different enough 
that we have to keep the 4.0 version around for some ports for a while 
(like we did with DB 3.2 because of things like cyrus-imap) -  and 
rather than have a "db4-latest", just have a "db41" (and "db42" and 
"db43" and so on).  Getting rid of the old ports when they're no longer 
dependencies for other ports.

	Barry


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