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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2012 15:28:40 -0400
From:      Michael Scheidell <scheidell@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PORTVERSION=1.0.0b
Message-ID:  <4FB945E8.1080603@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CADLo839p4ongYuW9h-qZsDaE=XRM5ETN5rjSrNmp-mMov8LfPw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/20/12 3:25 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>> any porters handbook, committers habndbook documentation on that? as in why
>> >  '1.0.0.b' is preferred over '1.0.0b'?
> Because as much as possible, we try to standardise things like version
> numbers and rc scripts, so people get a more consistent experience,
> rather than bowing to the particular upstream/maintainer's view of how
> versions work.
>
so, we need to update committers/porters handbook, or is this some 
secret thing? another of those 'we won't document it, but we sure as 
hell will publically lart you if you disobay the unspoken, undocumented 
secred code ?'

or, like I asked 'I need to give a link to submitter to show him this is 
the best way to do it'.

I guess I wait till the email archive is finished and point him to 
chris's post?

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