From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 14:09:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767FF16A4CE; Thu, 6 May 2004 14:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB53E43D4C; Thu, 6 May 2004 14:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (not verified)) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2275482B; Thu, 6 May 2004 16:09:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 102396FF36; Thu, 6 May 2004 16:09:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:09:34 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Will Andrews Message-ID: <20040506210933.GD2316@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Will Andrews , ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200404160124.i3G1OlUd067575@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040416163635.GB49780@madman.celabo.org> <4080151C.1070200@fillmore-labs.com> <20040416173857.GA50670@madman.celabo.org> <20040416174418.GC50670@madman.celabo.org> <40802354.3030202@fillmore-labs.com> <20040417152242.GA5543@madman.celabo.org> <20040506190729.GD1777@madman.celabo.org> <20040506202513.GZ34693@sirius.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040506202513.GZ34693@sirius.firepipe.net> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/pkg_install-devel Makefile distinfo X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:09:37 -0000 On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:25:13PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:07:29PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > Is anyone besides Oliver and myself interested in package version > > number reform? I'd really like to produce a `better' set of rules > > for the handbook that eliminates some of the edge cases, and then > > re-version the relatively few ports that don't fit the rules. > > > > Oliver's PR is as good a starting point as any that I've seen--- it > > goes further than our current rules and only conflicts with them in > > one case. > > I missed your original message. I have discussed his PR with > him in private to some extent. Er, yeah--- it was almost a month ago :-) and intertwined with some other material that is not relevant to this issue. To summarize, Oliver stated that the `definition of the versioning rules' is PR 56961. Clearly that's not the case--- the Porter's Handbook are where such rules are documented. Nonetheless, the section of Oliver's PR that deals with version numbers seems like a good place to start if we wish to clean up the rules. I'd like to see the principles agreed upon and then expanded for clarity. I have minor misgivings about some items, so I'd like to see further discussion. I'm very glad Oliver has done so much work in this area--- I think it is particularly important as more and more tools make use of package version numbers to make important decisions. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org