On 2010-06-10 11:50:49 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Exactly the point. MacPorts sorely needs the same sort of split-off > feature as fink where a libmpfr2-shlibs/libmpfr3-shlibs split-off > package could contain the required runtime shared libraries which > can co-exist but the main libmpfr2/libmpfr3 packages with the > development headers and shared lib symlinks would conflict. The > absence of such a capability in MacPorts is a major limitation > to proper package migrations. One simply can't expect to force > all packages in mass to migrate to new soversions of a support > library, Some backward compatibility support has to be retained > through co-existing shlibs split-off packages.
Note however that in the case of MPFR, ABI breakage is rare. IIRC, ABI compatibility had been preserved since November 2004. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
