On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:22:38PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I think both sthen@ and I have mentioned before that we really like > how FreeBSD has the revision in a separate PORTREVISION variable > that is much easier and less error prone to increment than pX > suffixes in PKGNAME. > > > e.g., we would have something like: > > > > REVISION-main = 5 > > REVISION-a = 2 > > Yes. And consider putting vX in a separate variable as well while > you're there (` la FreeBSD's PORTEPOCH).
As far as naming goes, are you okay with REVISION(-sub) and EPOCH(-sub) ? I don't see the point in adding an extra PORT in front of it. (I can do it smoothly, without needing to change every port Makefile over night).
