Under the circumstances I think that backing the port down to the previous version is fine. Mark Marc André Selig <mas@seligma.com> on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 9:26 AM -0800 wrote:
the recent slib upgrade to 3a4 gives us (well, me) more headaches than I would wish for. GnuCash does not work with versions 3a2 and 3a4 of slib, only 3a3. The last few days, all of the time I can spend for MacPorts was busy instructing people how to manually downgrade slib to 3a3. I have tried to provide a package "slib- stable" with 3a3, but this would have to filter through too many ports to make it actually desirable.
From a cursory grep at the dports directory, it appears (I may be mistaken!) that the only ports that actually use slib are GnuCash and lang/gauche.
Also, that the major reason slib was upgraded for MacPorts seems to have been that the sources for 3a3 had moved and the people fixing this thought the upgrade to the latest alpha release was the simplest solution.
Are my premises correct? Would it thus be acceptable for me to actually revert the slib portfile to version 3a3 (including a fix for the source location)? For a limited period of time? It would certainly make life easier for anybody wanting to use GnuCash on OS X. (fink is no alternative, since it does not yet provide GnuCash 2.0.)