True. And, I take it that the "MacPorts powers that be" would prefer if ports used one style or the other, but not mixing an matching, yes? That's OK; I think it's pretty easy to change the install location of these ports, and also to specify which to use in any dependent port (and, I believe, there are not very many dependent ports). Should take a few days for me to deal with this and test it well enough. - MLD
On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > When there are multiple versions of a port, we have two possible naming > conventions. > > One is to have two ports: foo and foo-devel, with foo being stable and > foo-devel being development or experimental. foo and foo-devel conflict with > one another. Ports that declare dependencies on these ports do so in a way > that either could satisfy it. (c.f. graphviz{,-devel}, pango{,-devel}, > glib2{,-devel}, cairo{,-devel}, libpixman{,-devel}). > > The other is to have two or more ports fooXY, where XY is a part of the > version number. The latest of these might not be stable yet, but will be in > the fullness of time (c.f. php55, llvm-3.3, clang-3.3). The ports do not > conflict with one another. Ports may declare dependencies on whichever > version is required. Different ports can declare dependencies on different > fooXY versions and they can all be installed simultaneously. > > So, in the qwt ports, you are mixing and matching these two styles. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
