[129573] trunk/dports/games/Cockatrice/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> I don't think switching from "0.0.2" to "2014-12-15" (or whatever the appropriate date is) would require increasing `epoch`, but I'm not sure.

You can check whether increasing the epoch would be necessary by using the vercmp procedure. I wrote a small wrapper script to be able to call it from the command line; you can get the script from my users directory in the repository:

$ ~/macports/users/ryandesign/scripts/vercmp 0.0.2 2014-12-15
MacPorts considers 0.0.2 to be less than 2014-12-15.

So no epoch increase would be necessary.

On the other hand, at some point in the future, if a normal version number is assigned, increasing the epoch will be necessary:

$ ~/macports/users/ryandesign/scripts/vercmp 2014-12-15 1.0.0
MacPorts considers 2014-12-15 to be greater than 1.0.0.


On Dec 17, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Marko Käning wrote:

> Well, it would be easier to simply use the date as the MP version number then.
> 
> Yet, in order to not to initiate unnecessary rebuilds of the port, I am
> reluctant to make this change now and wait for an update request from the users
> (for perhaps another half year) and then make the change.
> 
> What do you say to that?

I'm ok with that.