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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:46:30 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        ade@freebsd.org
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   outside the box (Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT)
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Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> wrote:

> The undeniable fact is that configure scripts in general have
> chosen to do things a certain way.  Unfortunately for us (us
> being FreeBSD), we have now broken these conceptions by moving
> to a dual-digit major release.

I don't suppose 

  REVISION="A.1"

i.e. using a single hex digit instead of two decimal digits,
would work any better :)

(IIRC alphas do sort after numerics, at least in the C locale.)



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