Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:51:04 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003301450060.36099-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On 30 Mar 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> * Also a good idea, except it should probably be +VERSION for consistency
>
> No, I wrote it that way explicitly so users can install more than one
> version of the same "port" if they want. Ultimately we want to go to
> something like gnu stow (the /var/opt/pkgname/{bin,share,lib...} and
> the symlink tree from /usr/local) and there is no reason why we have
> to restrict ourselves to one version per port.
The problem remains of how you actually locate this file to find out what
version you have. Having a statically-named file with the version (or
versions) in the contents is easy to read, having a dynamically named file
means you have to scan the directory and parse the contents.
Kris
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