Promoting maven3 to 3.1.1

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Nov 26 09:45:19 PST 2013


On 2013-11-26 19:20 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Nov 26, 2013, at 00:06, Mark Evenson wrote:
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>> Other than I don’t know any other example of a port name with a period (“.”) in it, so we might want to check that including version in this way doesn’t break anything, this looks like a perfectly acceptable proposal to me.
> 
> perl5.12, p5.12-*, clang-3.3, llvm-3.3, etc.
> 
> We also have ports that run the numbers together, like python33 or php55, but this has a built-in assumption that version number components don’t grow to more than 1 digit, which isn’t always the case (e.g. perl5.12); being sufficiently future-proof isn’t a bad idea.
> 
> The “-“ in e.g. clang-3.3 worried me because I thought MacPorts would confuse it with the syntax for disabling a variant, but it doesn’t seem to have been a problem.

To quote 'port lint': "Names should only contain alphanumeric
characters, underscores, dashes or dots."

- Josh


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