Where to include port version in 'port pkg' output?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Jan 5 13:53:16 PST 2013


On Jan 5, 2013, at 15:32, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Also, what about a different separator for the epoch to avoid confusion?
> Writing the example above as foo-1_3.2.0_0.pkg would be easier for
> recognition by humans.

I approve of that, since we already use underscore to separate version from revision; makes sense to then also use underscore to separate epoch from version.

It seems unfortunate to make the epoch user-visible at all, since a handful of ports have large unsightly epochs. :/



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