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Subject: Re: Is it good to have port versions as hex numbers?
To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
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On 08/15/2017 17:07, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Git hashes don't "increase," so they wouldn't make any sense for a PORTVERSION. Use the date instead.


Yes, sorry, I reformulate the question: does pkg use orderedness of 
version numbers? I assume it has to in order to be able to know when the 
package is older or newer. So such versioning schema is bad.


Yuri