On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > oh, I'm not really keen on giving people this shortcut - it's quite common > for function types to change, and that's an incompatible change which needs > the library major to be bumped. > > if people don't want to look at the full diff they should just bump major > anyway (but they should also be aware that library major bumps cause a > problem for -stable port updates, so they should really look at the full > diff anyway). > > if you're tracking upstream releases reasonably closely, much of the time > it's not too slow to check over a diff anyway (for autoconf-based projects > it can save a bit of time to rm any configure scripts and Makefiles before > diffing). > > what do others think?
Well, as the one who added the shortcut, i think it's valuable for a start. If there's a better way, like grepping for installed headers in PLIST and diffing all of them in a single command, why not.. Landry
