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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:50:27 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/utah-glx Makefile  ports/graphics/utah-glx/filesmd5 ports/graphics/utah-glx/patches  patch-ab patch-ac patch-ad    ports/graphics/utah-glx/pkg DESCR PLIST
Message-ID:  <39A64163.AE920F01@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008250237380.31593-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
> >   - Change port versioning scheme to PORTVERSION=YYYYMMDD, because despite the
> >     promise, the project had not released its magic 1.0 version (promised to be
> >     about 3 months ago);
>
> In the coming world order for ports, this version number change is wrong
> (or at least likely to be wrong in the future):
>
> 0.9.1 -> YYYYMMDD -> 0.9.2 will cause a version decrease which will
> require a bump of PORTEPOCH to compensate.
>
> Better to call it 0.9.1.YYYYMMDD or 0.9.1.1 or something else which stays
> monotonically increasing when the vendor does get around to releasing a
> new version.

Point taken. Thanks for the tip!

-Maxim



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