Is it good to have port versions as hex numbers?

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 15 Aug, 2017, at 18:00, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> 
> One committer suggested to make GH_TAGNAME into a port version by prepending with 'g', like this: ntk-g92365ec.
> 
> IMO, this is only good when pkg can understand such version numbers as increasing when interpreted as hexadecimal numbers.
> 
> Does pkg understand this?

Git hashes don't "increase," so they wouldn't make any sense for a PORTVERSION. Use the date instead.

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