Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:07:31 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databases/p5-Pg Makefile ports/databases/pgaccess Makefile ports/databases/py-PyGreSQL Makefile Message-ID: <20000829160731.H33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <20000829210034.A85169@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@klemm.gtn.com on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:00:34PM %2B0200 References: <vqcya1h2g94.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000828190331.N33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> <vqczolxneoe.fsf@bubble.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000828200531.R33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> <vqcr978or91.fsf@bubble.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000828233902.U33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000828224846.U47688@bsd.planetwe.com> <20000829070649.A57347@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20000829123035.V33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000829210034.A85169@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:00:34PM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong. But the "end product" you are speaking of
> is the binary package, which has a name of its own and is defined
> in the ports Makefile.
/usr/ports/* is the end product.
> Its nearly completely meaningless for the enduser if the directory
> name was postgresql or postgresql7. My personal opineon is, that
> postgresql7 and postgresqlN is more informative, since it shows
> you already during directory listing, that it deals with version
> 7 of the postgresql database.
Shit, lets just put the version number in every directory number then.
The number (when used) is used to differentiate between several versions.
There is only one version, therefore the version number in the directory
name is wrong.
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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