Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-15 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, - On 15 Nov, 2014, at 21:24, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: >> If we did create authoritative validation service, would >> portutil.tcl be a good location? > > Probably not, that would make it only accessible from portfile > interpreter contexts. Somewhere in macports1.0 would be

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-15 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-11-16 06:04 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > >> On 2014-11-12 17:14 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht >>> wrote: >>> I don't know that I understand these variant checks, they seem t

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-15 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2014-11-12 17:14 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >> On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >> >>> I don't know that I understand these variant checks, they seem to not >>> produce the same result in all cases: >>> >>> http://tr

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-12 Thread Joshua Root
On 2014-11-12 17:14 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > >> I don't know that I understand these variant checks, they seem to not >> produce the same result in all cases: >> >> http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/port/por

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-11 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > I don't know that I understand these variant checks, they seem to not produce > the same result in all cases: > > http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_2/base/src/port/port.tcl#L289 > http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/rele

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-10 Thread Mihai Moldovan
On 01.10.2014 09:39 pm, Sean Farley wrote: > Lawrence Velázquez writes: > >> On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> It's been proposed on this list that we should rename MySQL ports e.g. >>> mysql51 -> mysql-5.1; this would be to match the existing new ports >>> mariadb-10.0 and

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-11-10 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> The problem with dots in port names is that so far "port lint" has declared >> the dot an illegal character in a variant name. This has led the perl5 port >> for example to adopt var

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-10-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> The problem with dots in port names is that so far "port lint" has declared >>> the dot an illegal character in a var

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-10-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> The problem with dots in port names is that so far "port lint" has declared >> the dot an illegal character in a variant name. This has led the perl5 port >> for example to adopt var

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-10-01 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The problem with dots in port names is that so far "port lint" has declared > the dot an illegal character in a variant name. This has led the perl5 port > for example to adopt variant names like perl5_16 which I've always found a > little con

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-10-01 Thread Sean Farley
Lawrence Velázquez writes: > Resurrecting this thread. Let's keep general renaming discussion here. Sure, sounds good. > On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> It's been proposed on this list that we should rename MySQL ports e.g. >> mysql51 -> mysql-5.1; this would be to match

Re: Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-10-01 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
Resurrecting this thread. Let's keep general renaming discussion here. On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > It's been proposed on this list that we should rename MySQL ports e.g. > mysql51 -> mysql-5.1; this would be to match the existing new ports > mariadb-10.0 and mariadb-10.1

Recommendations for version numbers in port names

2014-09-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
It's been proposed on this list that we should rename MySQL ports e.g. mysql51 -> mysql-5.1; this would be to match the existing new ports mariadb-10.0 and mariadb-10.1. Consistency is good, especially within a particular type of software (e.g. MySQL in this case) but renaming MySQL ports is mor