Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:09:34 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/pkg_install-devel Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <20040506210933.GD2316@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040506202513.GZ34693@sirius.firepipe.net> References: <200404160124.i3G1OlUd067575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040416163635.GB49780@madman.celabo.org> <4080151C.1070200@fillmore-labs.com> <20040416173857.GA50670@madman.celabo.org> <20040416174418.GC50670@madman.celabo.org> <40802354.3030202@fillmore-labs.com> <20040417152242.GA5543@madman.celabo.org> <20040506190729.GD1777@madman.celabo.org> <20040506202513.GZ34693@sirius.firepipe.net>
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:25:13PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:07:29PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > Is anyone besides Oliver and myself interested in package version > > number reform? I'd really like to produce a `better' set of rules > > for the handbook that eliminates some of the edge cases, and then > > re-version the relatively few ports that don't fit the rules. > > > > Oliver's PR is as good a starting point as any that I've seen--- it > > goes further than our current rules and only conflicts with them in > > one case. > > I missed your original message. I have discussed his PR with > him in private to some extent. Er, yeah--- it was almost a month ago :-) and intertwined with some other material that is not relevant to this issue. To summarize, Oliver stated that the `definition of the versioning rules' is PR 56961. Clearly that's not the case--- the Porter's Handbook are where such rules are documented. Nonetheless, the section of Oliver's PR that deals with version numbers seems like a good place to start if we wish to clean up the rules. I'd like to see the principles agreed upon and then expanded for clarity. I have minor misgivings about some items, so I'd like to see further discussion. I'm very glad Oliver has done so much work in this area--- I think it is particularly important as more and more tools make use of package version numbers to make important decisions. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org
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