\mail\postfix-XXX Older versions of Postfix \mail\postfix-stable Latest stable version of Postfix \mail\postfix-current Experimental version of Postfix
Based on the goal of user-friendliness and principle of least surprise I'd vote for changing -current to -experimental. It is a FreeBSD naming convention for -current to mean experimental (alpha, rc, ...) but for those who are not regularly involved with the FreeBSD release cycle this is not intuitive. Longer-term at least, there is user-friendliness to be gained by switching to a more descriptive name than -current to describe pre-released software. Note also that Wietse uses FreeBSD and usually follows BSD naming conventions but has chosen not to in this case. IMO, Roger
As each "experimental" becomes stable, it is given a "postfix-stable" designation and the old stable release is given a "postfix-XXX" designation. The new postfix experimental release then assumes the "postfix-current" title. My only concern with changing the name "postfix-current" to "postfix-devel" or whatever is for historical purposes. I have always known it by the latter designations plus I am not sure if it would cause a problem in the ports system if it were to be renamed. In any case, the "postfix" ports were always kept up-to-date in virtual real time. Now they seem to lag behind. I am unsure as to what has happened. -- Carmel
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