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

[Michel Salim]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
Any reason we don't tag the pre-release data into the release number
instead? That way it can be scala-2.7.2-0.rc2.1 -- assuming the
release number is allowed to be non-integral, of course.

Regards,

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