outside the box (Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT)

From: <perryh_at_pluto.rain.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:46:30 -0700
Ade Lovett <ade_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> The undeniable fact is that configure scripts in general have
> chosen to do things a certain way.  Unfortunately for us (us
> being FreeBSD), we have now broken these conceptions by moving
> to a dual-digit major release.

I don't suppose 

  REVISION="A.1"

i.e. using a single hex digit instead of two decimal digits,
would work any better :)

(IIRC alphas do sort after numerics, at least in the C locale.)
Received on Tue Sep 27 2011 - 05:50:36 UTC

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