On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:32, Wahlstedt Jyrki wrote: > On 30.1.2012, at 1.26, Dan Ports wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:28:04PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> I'm still really not comfortable with this strategy. Any user selecting a >>> variant should get the same result; it should not matter what existing >>> versions of other ports they have installed. >> >> In particular, this will probably not work right if installing a binary >> archive from the buildbot or elsewhere. That package will be linked >> against whatever library version the build system had installed >> (presumably the default) rather than the one on the user's system. >> >> Dan > > Hi, > a while ago, during an earlier version of the Portfile, I got the following: > === > We no longer want variant names starting with "with_", "without_", "no_", > etc. These variants should be called "mysql5", "postgresql83", > "postgresql84", "postgresql90" and "bdb", respectively. The bdb variant's > functionality would be the reverse of what you currently have in the > without_bdb variant. <snip> > === > So, naming conventions change, and unfortunately there is no smooth way to > move to the new scheme!?
The maintainer should supply legacy compatibility variants for a year, or whatever period of time is deemed necessary to allow most users to have upgraded. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
