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De : N_Ox <n.oxyde@gmail.com> Date : 27 mai 2007 23:35:28 HAEC À : Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> Objet : Rép : [25656] trunk/dports/devel/pcre/Portfile

Le 27 mai 07 à 23:04, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

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On May 27, 2007, at 15:49, N_Ox wrote:

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Le 27 mai 07 à 22:44, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

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On May 27, 2007, at 11:37, source_changes@macosforge.org wrote:

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Revision: 25656 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ changeset/25656 Author: nox@macports.org Date: 2007-05-27 09:37:40 -0700 (Sun, 27 May 2007)

Log Message: ----------- Added utf8 variant. Added standard documentation installation. Changed master sites order. Taken over.

Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/dports/devel/pcre/Portfile

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So wait... users who had pcre 7.1_0 installed already had UTF-8 support. Now we upgrade to pcre 7.1_1 and we don't have UTF-8 support, unless we uninstall pcre and reinstall it with +utf8. Why was UTF-8 support made optional and non-default?

First, I don't really like features being enabled by default. Second, as there is other ports with utf8 variant, i think this should be made a variant wherever it could be, for consistency's sake.

It's not about consistency really; it's about what most users will want. Features should be enabled by default if it's reasonable to expect people will want it, and UTF-8 support is reasonable to want in 2007. I cite:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060222172940/darwinports.org/docs/ ch07s02.html

Which says:

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There are some guidelines for using variants:

* Never change the version of a port inside a variant. * Heavy usage of variants is considered bad style - keep the number of variants low. * Prefer function restricting variants over function enhancing ones. Make the default installation the one that serves most purposes.

Thanks for the link, i'll read it carefully. I'll make this variant enabled by default.

By the way, thanks for all your commit comments, they are very helpful.

-- Anthony Ramine, a lazy french student. nox@macports.org

-- Anthony Ramine, a lazy french student. nox@macports.org