Re: [Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink developers, I have added a Distribution field to fink packages which involve python or perl. But it can be used for any package, not just perl/pythonmods, right? Right. As some of you will

Re: [Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
David R. Morrison wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Can we have a percent expansion, perhaps %{dist} to represent the value of Distribution: so that it can be used elsewhere in the .info (like for determining build settings)? I think it will almost

Re: [Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-18 Thread Jack Howarth
Dave, What features do we have available in fink currently to allow the distribution (10.4 vs 10.5) to be tested at build time? It would be very useful to be able to case such things as ConfigureParms to have different values depending on whether the package was being built under Tiger or

Re: [Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-18 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink developers, I have added a Distribution field to fink packages which involve python or perl. But it can be used for any package, not just perl/pythonmods, right? As some of you will recall, we are sharing files between fink's 10.4 and 10.5

Re: [Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Howarth wrote: Dave, What features do we have available in fink currently to allow the distribution (10.4 vs 10.5) to be tested at build time? It would be very useful to be able to case such things as ConfigureParms to have different

[Fink-devel] the Distribution field

2007-06-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, I have added a Distribution field to fink packages which involve python or perl. As some of you will recall, we are sharing files between fink's 10.4 and 10.5 distributions. Also, fink's 10.5 distribution does not contain python 2.3, perl 5.8.1, or perl 5.8.4. The