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Op zo 20 mei 2012 15:28:40 schreef Michael Scheidell:
> On 5/20/12 3:25 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> >> any porters handbook, committers habndbook documentation on that? as in
> >> why
> >> 
> >> >  '1.0.0.b' is preferred over '1.0.0b'?
> > 
> > Because as much as possible, we try to standardise things like version
> > numbers and rc scripts, so people get a more consistent experience,
> > rather than bowing to the particular upstream/maintainer's view of how
> > versions work.
> 
> so, we need to update committers/porters handbook, or is this some
> secret thing? another of those 'we won't document it, but we sure as
> hell will publically lart you if you disobay the unspoken, undocumented
> secred code ?'
> 
> or, like I asked 'I need to give a link to submitter to show him this is
> the best way to do it'.
> 
> I guess I wait till the email archive is finished and point him to
> chris's post?
> 


I think you don't want 1.0.0.b, since the .b will signify a beta and
1.0.0 > 1.0.0.b. That doesn't look like how upstream means it to be.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#AEN752
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=165767#reply6