#20810: postgresql_select port request -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: apinstein@… | Owner: mww@… Type: request | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Keywords: | Port: postgresql_select -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Comment(by ryandesign@…): Hmm, it hadn't occurred to me that the existence of a system version of something would be a criteria for having a _select port for it. My thought process was: There are multiple versions of PostgreSQL available in MacPorts that can be installed simultaneously. Users want to type "psql" to run a particular one of them. (Or perhaps they want to have scripts referencing /opt/local/bin/psql.) The solution I was proposing was to be able to "port select" one of them to create the appropriate symlink(s). I have similar separate ideas for the MySQL and PHP ports, which I will bring up on macports-dev later. The alternative would be to just tell the user to put /opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin or whatever into their PATH. But then I would ask: why do we let users "select" some software packages (like Python), and for others (like Apache) we make them modify the PATH? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20810#comment:8> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS