Recommendations for version numbers in port names

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-11-12 17:14 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> 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.

I think you mean validation? We don't actually do that anywhere at the
moment. All the places above are just parsing.

- Josh