svn commit: r310063 - in head: . sysutils/cfengine

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>   With this change, users can install the sysutils/cfengine
>>   port, and by default track the latest major version of the
>>   software.  Subsequent version releases, for example the 3.5
>>   branch, will not require any interaction from user side.
> Nice! In my opinion this should be followed by all/most? ports
> with multi version in the ports tree, this will fix also fix
> tracking in binary work major upgrades (aka change of default
> version) with no manuall intervention.

I'd soften this statement a bit:  It looks like a good idea to have
a canonical version in those cases where we have several in the tree.
That should not necessarily be the latest major (or "major") version, 
though.

For example, with lang/gcc I am planning to switch to a newer codebase
with the upstream .2 release or so, perhaps .1, perhaps .3, but not .0
in general (for several reasons, also including _other_ ports not being
ready yet and needing some ripening upstream).

Gerald