On Aug 11, 2018, at 15:58, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> " Some Portfile authors have used large epoch values that look like a date,
>> but there is no reason to do so"
>
> nor is there a reason not to (that's not based on an ad-hoc decision) ...
>
> The doc reads a bit as if the epoch is equivale
On Aug 11, 2018, at 10:13, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I've been using non-integer (but numerical) epochs in a few of my ports just
> because it made sense to set it e.g. to 5.1 when I started using the 5.1
> branch in a port. AFAIK the property is purely internal so it could be
> anything (i.
