Default revision of 1

[Randall Wood]

Have you tried using revision -1 (negative 1) for your private ports?

On 9 Oct 2006, at 23:23, Blair Zajac wrote:

> When I'm developing a new port or want to override the default port  
> in MacPort's
> svn with a local port of a newer upstream release, it would be nice  
> to have a
> range of revision numbers that is smaller than any revision number  
> from
> MacPort's svn repository.
>
> This would enable me to have a local port, say subversion 1.4.1-0,  
> and then when the real subversion 1.4.1-1 comes out, I'll get an  
> out of date warning.
>
> Also, is the revision an integer, a floating point value, or does  
> it compare values like the version number, it 0.10 is greater than  
> 0.9?
>
> Would people mind defaulting the revision to 1?
>
> I don't know how this would be rolled out.  It would cause a  
> massive upgrade.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> -- 
> Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
> CTO, OrcaWare Technologies
> <blair at orcaware.com>
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>
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Randall Wood
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