Ports with version numbers going backwards: devel/ode

[Chuck Swiger]

Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
[ ... ]
> As far as I understand your proposal this will give us
> 
>   0.005 < 0.05 < 0.039 < 0.050 < 0.5 < 0.39 < 0.50 < 0.390 < 0.500
> 
> while the current order is
> 
>   0.005 = 0.05 = 0.5 < 0.039 = 0.39 < 0.050 = 0.50 < 0.390 < 0.500
> 
> so you have `interesting' sequences like `0.05 < 0.039 < 0.5 < 0.39'. 
> This is what you intended, but it looks strange to me.

Consider perl-5.006 versus perl-5.6.  Should they be equal, or should the 
second be greater?  We have almost exactly that with the base version at 5.005 
and the default perl port at 5.6.1.  :-)

Sergy is saying .006 < .6, or ought to be, rather than equal.  Basicly, use 
the presence of a leading zero to indicate the version # should be considered 
via a decimal math comparision, rather than "version # as integer counter".

-- 
-Chuck