RFE: provide ${os.major} instead of local regexps

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Provide ${os.major} with the major ${os.version} to use for platform variants and for packaging. Having it in one place makes it easier to modify for different OSes, and less code when using...

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macports-major.patch

[kballard (Lily Ballard)]

Looks good, though there's no reason to use a regexp for this when we can just split on periods. Committed with that change in r26693. Thanks.

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Thanks for applying the change, now we can include the ${os.major} when fetching remote packages and when setting up repositories - something like ${os.platform}/${os.major}/${os.arch}...

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It should be noted that the patch only adds the variable, it doesn't actually change naming.

[jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)]

Go to the dev list archive to read my comments on this: ​http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-July/002041.html

Setting milestone to "Needs dev review", hoping we get better traction there.

-jmpp

[jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)]

Milestone Needs developer review deleted