Koen van der Drift wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> The problem are packages like plplot that still depend on -pm586 >> packages, although -pm588 variants exist. > > So, what would actually be a solution for that? I am maintaining > package of which the new version requires soap-lite. But it is not a > perl package, how do I include the perl variants in the info file?
If there are no technical reasons for preferring one version over the other, then as I see it, you have the choice between a user-friendly solution and a maintainer-friendly solution. The user-friendly solution would be to have two packages, one for 10.4 that depends on -pm586, and one for 10.5 that depends on -pm588. In this way, users don't need to install Fink perl packages, the system perl will do. The maintainer-friendly solution is to impose a choice and require either -pm586 (that would be the old choice, requiring Leopard users to install Fink's perl-5.8.6 and a bunch of -pm586 packages) or -pm588 (the more modern choice, requiring Tiger users to install Fink's perl-5.8.8). A bad compromise would be to perl-variant your package. Not maintainer-friendly either, because you would need to test both variants on 10.4 and 10.5. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
