On Apr 7, 2019, at 13:25, Christopher Chavez wrote:
> Currently, comments in Portfiles containing dates, such as for when remove
> something in the future, are specified in whichever scheme preferred by the
> port maintainer or whoever inserted the date. Some of these schemes are
> region-specific (e.g. mm/dd/yyyy used in the US) and potentially ambiguous.
>
> With MacPorts being an international project, would it be preferable for
> MacPorts to exclusively use ISO 8601 dates (yyyy-mm-dd) for these purposes?
> Does that impose too much on maintainers? The primary advantage of doing this
> will be that it will be easier to search for any dates in Portfiles. I am
> willing to initiate pull request(s) to convert existing non-ISO 8601 examples
> I encounter.
>
> Also, would it be preferable to insist on a consistent exact phrase for such
> comments: “Remove after yyyy-mm-dd”?
We already use YYYYMMDD dates in the version field of ports where upstream
hasn't assigned a version number. Using that same format for comments about
when an obsolete port can be removed seems reasonable.
