port release candidate versioning question

[Ken Cunningham]

thanks to all for the helpful responses.

I will try to get it right off the mark.

K

> On Aug 17, 2020, at 12:40, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 17, 2020, at 13:39, Arno Hautala wrote:
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>>> On 17 Aug 2020, at 14:35, Arno Hautala wrote:
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>>> To verify this, and to test other cases, you can try the ‘vercmp’ script
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>> I should probably have included a link to the script, instead a test of the comparisons…
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>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/ryandesign/scripts/vercmp
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> The current location of the script is:
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> https://github.com/ryandesign/macports-user-ryandesign/blob/master/scripts/vercmp
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> I highly recommend using this script to determine whether you need to increase the epoch.
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> We do not recommend setting the epoch to a date-like value. Simply use an increasing integer value. Its default value is 0. The first time you need to increase it, set it to 1; the second time, set it to 2, etc.
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> We do not recommend falsifying the port's version number or misusing the revision. Set the version field to the correct upstream version number.
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