On 21 Jan 2007, at 20:57, John Ridgway wrote:
On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote:
Incidentally, I only think this should be used for specific ports where more than one major version is constantly in active use (apache, mysql, postgresql come to mind). In other cases a "beta" variant might be a better approach.
The problem with this is that I remember reading (somewhere) that variants should not change the version! Is that rule to be relaxed in the case of "beta" variants?
It is a bad idea for variants to change versions if only because a new version of a port may require different patches, configure arguments, download different source code, etc, and lead to a massive, unwieldily, and most-likely difficult to read portfile. In addition, the port index will not be able to accurately reflect the port version or dependencies if that happens. Randall Wood rhwood@mac.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."