outside the box (Re: HEADS UP: ports/ and 10.0-CURRENT)

[O. Hartmann]

On 09/27/11 16:46, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Ade Lovett<ade at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>
>> The undeniable fact is that configure scripts in general have
>> chosen to do things a certain way.  Unfortunately for us (us
>> being FreeBSD), we have now broken these conceptions by moving
>> to a dual-digit major release.
>
> I don't suppose
>
>    REVISION="A.1"
>
> i.e. using a single hex digit instead of two decimal digits,
> would work any better :)
>

... it will only postpone the agony ... better to deal now than shifting 
it to the future ...