Under the circumstances I think that backing the port down to the previous version is fine.
Mark Marc André Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 9:26 AM -0800 wrote: >the recent slib upgrade to 3a4 gives us (well, me) more headaches >than I would wish for. GnuCash does not work with versions 3a2 and >3a4 of slib, only 3a3. The last few days, all of the time I can >spend for MacPorts was busy instructing people how to manually >downgrade slib to 3a3. I have tried to provide a package "slib- >stable" with 3a3, but this would have to filter through too many >ports to make it actually desirable. > > From a cursory grep at the dports directory, it appears (I may be >mistaken!) that the only ports that actually use slib are GnuCash and >lang/gauche. > >Also, that the major reason slib was upgraded for MacPorts seems to >have been that the sources for 3a3 had moved and the people fixing >this thought the upgrade to the latest alpha release was the simplest >solution. > >Are my premises correct? Would it thus be acceptable for me to >actually revert the slib portfile to version 3a3 (including a fix for >the source location)? For a limited period of time? It would >certainly make life easier for anybody wanting to use GnuCash on OS >X. (fink is no alternative, since it does not yet provide GnuCash 2.0.) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
