On Nov 11, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Nov 11, 2008, at 17:53, Scott Haneda wrote:
How do you suggest I deal with this port in final release. The old
port was 1.1.0, and ASSP has gone through a directory structure
change, as well as multiple file deletions and additions.
The 1.4.3.0 is probably the last release before 2.0 comes out,
which is in beta now. I can see a bug patch here or there, but no
major changes to 1.4.3.0
I am going to want to prevent the issuing of an upgrade to an older
installed 1.1.0, as it will break everything. I could go back to
1.1.0, and see what has changed, and work to solve this issue, but
given the age of the original port, I suspect hardly anyone is
using the port anyway, or you would have heard requests for it.
What is your suggestion on how to deal with this? Rename the port
to something like assp1 and then have assp2 seperate when version 2
hits release, and leave the assp port as is?
There don't appear to be any ports in MacPorts that depend on the
assp port. So that's good; you don't have to test if your update
breaks any other ports.
Is there any reason why anyone would want to use assp 1.1.0 instead
of 1.4.3.0 or 2.0? You said it's so old that you suspect hardly
anybody is using it. So I would just update the port. If we later
discover someone really wants the old version, we can always get it
back from the repository.
The only reason I can think would be if they wanted to burn through
CPU cycles and otherwise cause themselves lots of pain. 1.1, while
not something I used, was back in the days when people would not even
consider running ASSP as it could not keep up with basic levels of
mail flow. It is the very reason I did not look at it back then.
FYI: Ports cannot be easily renamed in MacPorts; we are having this
discussion right now in another thread, in fact.
But I can create a new port, if I so desired, and call it assp1, and
submit that? I will not be doing that, but I wanted to make sure I
can move on and make assp2 as a totally new port.
--
Scott
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