On 5 Jan 2013, at 10:16pm, Blair Zajac <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/05/2013 02:12 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 5 Jan 2013, at 09:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It seems unfortunate to make the epoch user-visible at all, since a handful 
>>> of ports have large unsightly epochs. :/
>> 
>> That might be so, but i don't see an alternative. Macports might itself 
>> treat the epoch and revision as different things to the package version, 
>> which of course they are, but third parties cannot really be expected to 
>> understand such nuances. In this case the pkg's created need a single 
>> version number I think, so the version constructed for them have to include 
>> the epoch and revision numbers, if the system is to properly support changes 
>> in them. I don't think this situation is that different to rpm/deb packages 
>> on Linux systems, which usually do something very similar, combining the 
>> native package version with other versionings.
>> 
>> Using _ in the pkg version seems a good idea, as long as they are properly 
>> understood, by systems like munki for instance ?
> 
> Munki uses the interval version number in the .pkg or .mpkg, it doesn't care 
> about the filename.  Given that, I would still rather see consistently named 
> filenames.

Yes, thats what I mean. Would it properly understand a version like 0_3.2.1_0 
(and understand that 1_3.2.0_0 was newer) ?

Chris
> 
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