From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 29 5:28:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D61737B42C; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 05:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca41-85.ix.netcom.com [209.111.208.85]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06519; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:28:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8TCSR387059; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 05:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami) To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Guidelines for new port version variables References: <20000928120548.A89733@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000928172546.A91774@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000929010315.D93387@dragon.nuxi.com> From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 29 Sep 2000 05:28:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:03:15 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: "David O'Brien" * On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:55:24AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: * > IMO, it is much easier to remember to reset it to zero if you see * > something that's usually not there. * * I'm talking about remembering to set it to "1". I've addressed that too (in the paragraph you omitted). May I also point out that my comment was in response to this paragraph of yours? > Optionally allowing "_0" would certainly help me remember to deal with > this. If I see it in the Makefile it is *very* easy for me to bump it > (ore reset to 0). Note the "(ore reset to 0)". You were talking about both increasing or resetting, so I discussed both. Don't quote only part of my mail to pretend that I'm missing the point. :< Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message