On 03.04.2007, at 10:34, Randall Wood wrote:

can you put a note (even if only in comments) about why you are splitting libgtkhtml into versioned ports into the Portfile?

Sure. :)

--- trunk/dports/gnome/libgtkhtml312/Portfile (revision 23503)
+++ trunk/dports/gnome/libgtkhtml312/Portfile (revision 23505)
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 description    GTK HTML rendering engine.
long_description GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/ editing \
-                       engine. It was originally based on KHTMLW, part of the \
-                       KDE project, but is now being developed independently.
+                       engine. libgtkhtml312 contains the last version of \
+                       libgtkhtml that contains the previous printing API. \
+                       It is required for some ports that have not yet \
+                       switched to the new API or cannot do so for some \
+                       reason, and would break with the current version of \
+                       libgtkhtml3.  Several versions of libgtkhtml can \
+                       co-exist on the same machine.
 maintainers    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 categories     gnome

Regards,
Marc

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