"David Tremouilles" <david.trem@gmail.com> on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 5:35 AM -0800 wrote:

Hi all !

I'm brand new to macport and more generally to "mac world" so please excuse me if I ask kind of "stupid" questions.

It's been two day I'm playing with macport. (What an impressive tool to make your live easier!)

I was wondering whether there is a plan to update the py-tables version soon? 1.3 is quite old and 2.0 is arriving soon (currently at rc1 http://www.pytables.org/). Is there a kind of experimental port for 2.0 version?

Regards,

David

Hi David, Welcome to the Mac universe. I just updated py-tables to 1.4. For beta versions we sometimes do a port-devel (py-tables-devel in this case) with the latest version. On the other hand it depends on the circumstances. If 2.0's fixes things that are broken in 1.x and no ports would be broken by 2.x, few ports depend on it or other circumstances then perhaps having a -devel port is unnecessary. It all depends. We don't like to create any more -devel ports than necessary. The port currently has no maintainer so it really needs someone that knows the app to adopt the port and advise us of whether and when 1.x could be updated to 2.x. Mark