From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 15: 9:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D0B37B88B; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:09:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca2-07.ix.netcom.com [205.186.212.7]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09222; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:09:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id PAA17141; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:09:03 -0800 (PST) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable References: From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 30 Mar 2000 15:09:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:51:04 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Kris Kennaway * The problem remains of how you actually locate this file to find out what * version you have. Having a statically-named file with the version (or * versions) in the contents is easy to read, having a dynamically named file * means you have to scan the directory and parse the contents. But that's not hard! Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message