On Apr 13, 2009, at 16:52, [email protected] wrote:
On Monday, April 13, 2009, at 04:49PM, Darren Weber wrote:
This is a thread to discuss naming conventions for VTK in macports.
Macports has the following VTK ports (as of 04/13/2009):
VTK @4.4.2 (graphics)
3D visualization toolkit
vtk5 @5.2.1 (graphics, devel)
3D visualization toolkit
It might be more clear to rename along the lines of:
vtk @5.2.1
vtk-devel @5.4
vtk4 @4.4.2
I'm not sure how best we might handle renaming the existing ports
to match this scheme, but it would follow the scheme of keeping the
"port named without a version" as the latest, stable release. I
also need to fix the case-sensitive handling of the directory
versus the port name. Any thoughts?
This is difficult since MacPorts does not have a mechanism for
renaming ports. It would be great if we had such a mechanism.
Many of these separate packages in Debian and FreeBSD probably
equate to
'variants' in a macport.
That's true. MacPorts provides the extra language bindings in
variants rather than separate ports, unless the demand hasn't been
made to enable a particular binding either by default or as a variant.
IMHO separate ports are better than variants, since they can be
installed and uninstalled separately, and depended on (in a
dependency statement). The Subversion language bindings are in
separate ports, for example.
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