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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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