Default revision of 1

[James Berry]

On Oct 10, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Good idea.  No, I haven't tried.  Does it work?

I'm skeptical of negative revision numbers, due in part to parsing of  
the version string... I think negative numbers might confuse us, due  
to similarity with options and variant names.

James

>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> Randall Wood wrote:
>> 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 I'll get an out of date warning.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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>> Randall Wood
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>> "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90  
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