Default revision of 1

[Kevin Van Vechten]

Revisions should be a monotonically increasing serial number (think  
SVN revisions) indicating the revision of the Portfile.

The purpose of the revision is to provide a unique primary key for  
every portfile: {name, version, revision}.

- Kevin

On Oct 10, 2006, at 11:12 AM, James Berry wrote:

>
> 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 I'll get an out of date warning.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>
>>>> Subversion training, consulting and support
>>>> http://www.orcaware.com/svn/
>>>>
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