Re: [53018] trunk/dports/lang/python31/Portfile

2009-06-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt


On Jun 28, 2009, at 09:38, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:


Should python31a1 not have been a devel package?



The way it seems to be right now is:

If there's only a single port (cairo, pango, graphviz) and you want  
to have a port for the next not-yet-released version, then you use  
the -devel suffix (cairo-devel, pango-devel, graphviz-devel).


But if there are multiple versions of the port for each major version  
of the software (python*, gcc*), then you can just introduce the next  
major version portfile and let it mature from development snapshots  
to alpha to beta to release candidate to final releases.


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Re: [53018] trunk/dports/lang/python31/Portfile

2009-06-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt

On Jun 28, 2009, at 17:01, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:


Should python31a1 not have been a devel package?


The way it seems to be right now is:

If there's only a single port (cairo, pango, graphviz) and you  
want to have a port for the next not-yet-released version, then  
you use the -devel suffix (cairo-devel, pango-devel, graphviz-devel).


But if there are multiple versions of the port for each major  
version of the software (python*, gcc*), then you can just  
introduce the next major version portfile and let it mature from  
development snapshots to alpha to beta to release candidate to  
final releases.


Ah, then might I enquire why there was an a1 in version instead  
of just in distfile?


The version of the software *was* 3.1a1 (the first alpha release of  
3.1). Now the final version has been released so now the version is  
just 3.1. It is the version numbering scheme the developers of  
Python are using, so it is proper for the port to use the same  
convention.


The name of the port was and is python31.

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