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Authored by mat on Aug 2 2017, 2:21 PM.
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  • Move a table, and add a pointer to DISTNAME.
  • Fix the "Package Naming Examples" table. It was badly outdated.
  • Replace usage of PORTVERSION with DISTVERSION.

A few comments

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
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110

s/version./version, respectively./

133

How about: "... as they have the same version."?

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I would put the "think" part in () like this:
(think <quote>pre-release 1</quote>).

P.S.: Now that I've read the other examples, I think this is fine without (), but add a comma before the "think" part.

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s/end/ends/

242

I'd break this up into two sentences.

... their versions. For example, ...

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s/sometime/sometimes/

267

Maybe use "constructing" or "building" instead of computing here?

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when the software's versioning

mat marked 9 inline comments as done.Aug 2 2017, 4:19 PM

One more fix...

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
316

Now you still have to add the "the" after "when". I marked it up differently, so you may have not noticed it in the earlier comment. ;-)

  • One missed correction.
mat marked an inline comment as done.Aug 3 2017, 8:58 AM
mat added inline comments.
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
316

You are right, I had not noticed it. 🤔

I think it's good to go now. Thanks for working on it.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 3 2017, 9:20 AM
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