Is it good to have port versions as hex numbers?

[Danilo G. Baio]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 05:16:50PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> On 08/15/2017 17:07, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > Git hashes don't "increase," so they wouldn't make any sense for a PORTVERSION. Use the date instead.
> 
> 
> Yes, sorry, I reformulate the question: does pkg use orderedness of version
> numbers? I assume it has to in order to be able to know when the package is
> older or newer. So such versioning schema is bad.
> 
> 
> Yuri

Take a look, from yesterday.

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Author: mat
Date: Mon Aug 14 14:59:20 2017
New Revision: 50673
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50673

Log:
  Add another example about GitHub projects with no versions.

  Sponsored by: Absolight
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https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html#makefile-master_sites-github-ex1
Example 5.13

Regards.
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Danilo G. Baio (dbaio)
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