Re: Packages with versions but no releases

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-03-12 at 16:15 GMT, Brook Milligan wrote:

> - Use my download date.  This seems to be the pattern for other
> unversioned packages and will readily differentiate different copies
> of the zip file.  However, if upstream starts doing proper releases,
> we have the problem of which is earlier, a date or a version?

In the past we've worked around this by using a 0.0.DATE format, so
that as soon as upstream releases a proper version number, as long as
it is numerically greater than 0.0.20200312 or whatever then it will
work fine.

For example:

  audio/alacconvert/Makefile:PKGNAME=     alacconvert-0.0.20111026
  audio/libalac/Makefile:PKGNAME= libalac-0.0.20111026
  textproc/igor/Makefile:PKGNAME= igor-0.0.20140517

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