* Chris Rees (utis...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thanks for following this up; since we discussed this I've been thinking > though- why put the git bit in anyway? Does it have anything special > apart from a date marker, and if not, won't a date suffice?
Date doesn't itself indicate that this is a VCS snapshot, it may be upstream versioning scheme as well. `git' otoh is unambigous indication that this is a snapshot, and even tells which VCS it is. This is not limited to VCS snapshots - also alphas/betas/release candidates. Finally, letter-specific version comparison scheme is often needed, so 1.1 < 1.2.git123 or 1.2.beta2 or 1.2.rc2 < 1.2. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amd...@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amd...@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
