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

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sat Jan 5 14:06:12 PST 2013


On 01/05/2013 01:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> On Jan 5, 2013, at 15:32, Rainer Müller wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

The existing code does this.

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

True, but it's good those are rare.

Blair



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