Recommendations for version numbers in port names

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:

> I don't know that I understand these variant checks, they seem to not produce the same result in all cases:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/port/port.tcl#L289
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/port/port.tcl#L1752
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl#L730
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl#L2289
> 
> Would a proc for testing variant name sanity be worth the effort?

It would probably be a good idea to decide on an authoritative specification and consolidate verification in a single place.

vq