On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:25 AM, Vincent wrote:

>> My opinion would be that you can add the ports this way, with their 
>> development versions, without any special notice, since it sounds like their 
>> latest stable versions will not work the way you need them to work. You can 
>> make up a version number to put in the version field.
> 
> That I already did, but it seems meaningless, since the fetch phase will 
> always pull out the latest code. However, I’ll have a look a ‘mercurial’ 
> (unless someone out there is a guru of this yet-another-DRC and can advise me 
> directly) to figure out if there is a way to specify a date as a revision. In 
> which case, yes, that would make sense.

Yes, specifying a version or date in the version line when fetching from a VCS 
is cosmetic, and is assumed to be in addition to another mechanism for 
informing the VCS what commit of code should be checked out.

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