incr revision / portindex

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Nov 5 19:08:09 UTC 2021


On 2021-11-5 18:42 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Either we allow portindexes that differ by OS version and arch (and we currently do), or we do not.

That's something of a false dichotomy; we can also allow it for some but 
not all options. I am advocating disallowing it by policy for version 
and revision, not just because of this issue but because it makes it 
impossible to answer questions like "What is the current version of this 
port?"

- Josh


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