Re: outside the box (Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT)
On 09/27/11 16:46, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ade Lovett 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 :) ... it will only postpone the agony ... better to deal now than shifting it to the future ... ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
outside the box (Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT)
Ade Lovett 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.) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
