On 2018-9-10 13:23 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> It is fine for ports to offer different versions to different platforms. Up 
> to now, a "platform" was the combination of an operating system name, major 
> version number, and architecture (PowerPC or Intel). It has been proposed 
> that the C++ standard library should be added to that definition. Code 
> implementing that has already been added to portindex. We have not yet 
> deployed changes to the server to generate separate indexes per C++ standard 
> library, and we have not modified MacPorts base to look for a different index 
> on the server depending on the C++ standard library. We should make both of 
> those changes.

Oh sure, you can multiply the number of portindexes easily enough to
reflect one more configuration choice. It's not a sustainable design
direction though.

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