Use of newest version number such as 10.0 instead of current
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 12:29:49 UTC 2011
Dear all ,
Instead of using Current and then renaming everything for a new version
number ,
is it not possible to use the newest version number in place of Current
when it is branched .
Such a change will prevent unnecessary renaming problems .
For everyone , it i very easy to understand that 10.0 is the latest ,
therefore the current one .
The current may be used as a symbolic link to the newest version number ,
such as used by Debian .
For example , for FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 , the ports directory name was
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/
which is NOT available now , and
pkg_add -r *
is giving error about directory not found .
This is preventing testing and / or using efforts .
I know , it is possible to rename local link names , but
everyone is not so much knowledgeable .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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