Default revision of 1

[James Berry]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 8:23 PM, 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.

Well, to keep revisions sacrosanct , which kvv argues for and I agree  
with, another option might be to use small negative epoch values.

I believe epoch defaults to zero. So if you used a small negative  
epoch for your internal development, and removed epoch on release, I  
believe you'd have a solution to your problem. Assuming that all the  
epoch comparisons work correctly for negative numbers, which they  
probably do. You'd need to do some testing to figure verify this.

The nice thing, of course, is that maps well to the intended use of  
epoch: version numbering in entirely different spaces.

James

>
> 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 out of date warning.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
>
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> <blair at orcaware.com>
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