Ryan Schmidt wrote:
As this software is just a perl script and requires no extra steps
for other architectures shouldn't it considered to be already
universal?
Which would be:
default_variants +universal
variant universal {}
I would say no. I would say "universal_variant no" is currently
appropriate for software that is architecture-agnostic, like this perl
script.
Technically +universal would be 2 (or 4) architectures, while this is
for 0 (zero) architectures.
That's why it is called "noarch" in some other packaging systems* (that
call the universal "fat")
Having this "don't need compile" metadata in the Portfile is good, just
that "universal" isn't it:
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12206
But it could be joined to a single variable, like Ryan is suggesting,
as they do affect eachother ?
(if it doesn't have a machine architecture then it doesn't need to have
a +universal variant either)
--anders
* that would be RPM (.noarch.rpm), while another name is used in DEB
(.all.deb)
difference being how many it is built for, versus how many that it
applies to
_______________________________________________
macports-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
