From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 14:59:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D46116A41F for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:59:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C82D43D8D for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:59:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A725E55; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43907-03; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC9E5CED; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43B69CD3.8070303@mac.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:59:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel A." References: <5ceb5d550512302123v691619e2me120853f2e591691@mail.gmail.com> <43B65684.3000106@infracaninophile.co.uk> <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550512310641m56d47051xf0913ba1283369ec@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help me X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:59:43 -0000 Daniel A. wrote: > I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of > versioning software, across the whole OSS community. Yes, well, not everyone behaves the same way or has the same preferences. The porter's handbook has a discussion of the different version naming conventions, most of which can be understood by the port system makefiles (see the end): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html -- -Chuck