Help me

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sat Dec 31 06:59:43 PST 2005


Daniel A. wrote:
> I think it's kinda sad that there is not a standartized way of
> versioning software, across the whole OSS community.

Yes, well, not everyone behaves the same way or has the same preferences.  The 
porter's handbook has a discussion of the different version naming conventions, 
most of which can be understood by the port system makefiles (see the end):

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html

-- 
-Chuck


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