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From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 20:30:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=1.0.0b
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On 20 May 2012 20:28, Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/20/12 3:25 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> any porters handbook, committers habndbook documentation on that? as in
>>> why
>>> > =A0'1.0.0.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?

Docs patches would be great; you know full well that most of this
stuff isn't documented ;)

Chris