On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 20:25, Christopher Chavez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently, comments in Portfiles containing dates, such as for when remove > something in the future, are specified in whichever scheme preferred by the > port maintainer or whoever inserted the date. Some of these schemes are > region-specific (e.g. mm/dd/yyyy used in the US) and potentially ambiguous. > > With MacPorts being an international project, would it be preferable for > MacPorts to exclusively use ISO 8601 dates (yyyy-mm-dd) for these purposes? > Does that impose too much on maintainers? The primary advantage of doing this > will be that it will be easier to search for any dates in Portfiles. I am > willing to initiate pull request(s) to convert existing non-ISO 8601 examples > I encounter. > > Also, would it be preferable to insist on a consistent exact phrase for such > comments: “Remove after yyyy-mm-dd”?
I agree with everything, feel free to go forward and create a PR or whatever else is needed. (I also don't mind if you make this a valid option in some portgroup.) Mojca
