Does it support somehow arch?

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wbr, Kirill

> On 22. Oct 2022, at 10:50, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> MacPorts 2.8.0 lets you specify which OS versions your ports work on via the 
> platforms option. This indicates a port that works on darwin versions from 
> 10.x to 19.x inclusive:
> 
> platforms {darwin >= 10 < 20}
> 
> Most ports will probably only need one comparison, but you can have as many 
> as you need. Operators supported are ==, !=, >, <, >= and <=. For == and !=, 
> a string comparison that allows globs is used. For the rest, vercmp is used. 
> If any comparison doesn't match, known_fail is set to yes.
> 
> Note that the comparison is against ${os.version}, not ${os.major}, so you'll 
> usually want to use e.g. < 20 for the upper bound rather than <= 19 (the 
> latter would exclude all 19.x versions).
> 
> These are all valid:
> 
> platforms {darwin >= 11}
> platforms {darwin < 19} freebsd
> platforms {darwin >= 16 != 18.2.* < 23} {linux != *}
> 
> The second one indicates FreeBSD support in a purely informational way, as 
> per the usage of the platforms option in older MacPorts versions. The last 
> one indicates that it doesn't work on Linux and will set known_fail there. 
> Again, most ports will probably only use something like the first example, 
> but the flexibility is there if you need it.
> 
> All of the above can be used without making your Portfile incompatible with 
> 2.7. There is another way that platforms can be used:
> 
> platforms any
> platforms {darwin any}
> 
> The first one indicates that the port will install identical files no matter 
> what platform it is built on, and will set the platform in the archive 
> filename to "any_any". The second one indicates that the port will install 
> identical files when built on any version of Darwin, but may install 
> different files when built on other platforms, and sets the platform in the 
> archive filename to "darwin_any" when on Darwin.
> 
> These will usually only be applicable to noarch ports, though rare exceptions 
> may exist. Ports that install only data files or scripts will often be able 
> to use "any". Python scripts are an exception because Python uses a framework 
> layout on Darwin only, so they will be "{darwin any}".
> 
> Since the archive filename is changed, using this will of course prevent 
> users on older MacPorts versions from using the archives. So we would 
> normally wait 2 weeks after the release of 2.8.0 before starting to use this 
> feature.
> 
> However, with the release of Ventura in a couple days, it may pay to set 
> these platforms values on as many eligible ports as possible, both to make 
> the archives available to Ventura users even before we have a Ventura 
> buildbot worker up and running, and to reduce the load on that worker once it 
> is up.
> 
> - Josh

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