On Jul 6, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 4, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>> I have new mariadb100 and mariadb101-devel ports installed and with basic 
>> tests (connect to information_schema db).
>> 
>> I do not know that I am a fan of "drop the dot" version naming but 
>> consistency has it's place.
>> 
>> Does anyone want to share their opinion as to naming these ports mariadb100 
>> and mariadb101-devel vs mariadb10.0 and mariadb10.1-devel?
> 
> Jeremy H has been of the opinion that we should not drop the dot, and should 
> separate the version from the name with a dash, and has done so with the 
> clang ports (e.g. clang-3.4). This seems to work fine.
> 
> mariadb-10.0
> mariadb-10.1

I like it!

> Don't use a -devel suffix. (clang-3.5 doesn't.)

Is clang-3.5 alpha? Mariadb 10.1 is alpha.

My reason for adding -devel is to not encourage the casual user to install 
alpha software.

Would mariadb-devel or mariadb-10.1-alpha be better?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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