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From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Subject: Is it good to have port versions as hex numbers?
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:00:20 -0700
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One committer suggested to make GH_TAGNAME into a port version by 
prepending with 'g', like this: ntk-g92365ec.

IMO, this is only good when pkg can understand such version numbers as 
increasing when interpreted as hexadecimal numbers.

Does pkg understand this?


Yuri