[40228] trunk/dports/lang/scala/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 26, 2008, at 17:29, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:23, blair at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 40228
>>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/40228
>>> Author:   blair at macports.org
>>> Date:     2008-09-26 10:23:04 -0700 (Fri, 26 Sep 2008)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> New upstream 2.7.2.RC2 release of Scala.
>>>
>>> Modified Paths:
>>> --------------
>>>     trunk/dports/lang/scala/Portfile
>>>
>>> Modified: trunk/dports/lang/scala/Portfile
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- trunk/dports/lang/scala/Portfile    2008-09-26 14:40:59 UTC (rev
>>> 40227)
>>> +++ trunk/dports/lang/scala/Portfile    2008-09-26 17:23:04 UTC (rev
>>> 40228)
>>> @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
>>>  PortSystem 1.0
>>>
>>>  name        scala
>>> -version        2.7.1
>>> -revision    1
>>> +version        2.7.1.99.2.7.2.2
>>
>> If one makes use of the epoch variable, then this kind of version
>> munging isn't necessary, is it?
>>
>> Today you would have set the version to "2.7.2.RC2". And at a  
>> later time
>> when 2.7.2 final is released, you would set the version to "2.7.2"  
>> and
>> increase the epoch. Right?
>
> Right, but  I don't plan on increasing the epoch every time though.

You don't need to increase the epoch every time you update the  
version; only every time you update the version in a way that  
MacPorts wouldn't otherwise detect -- like when updating from a  
release candidate to a final version. That's not so bad, is it? And  
it has the advantage of giving the user the correct version number in  
"port info" and "port installed" and wherever else.