*-devel ports

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Thu Feb 7 07:10:50 PST 2008


On 2008-02-07 15:21:41 +0100, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
> 2008/2/7, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
> >It was proposed that -devel ports should be updated to the latest
> >stable version, if the latest stable version is newer than the latest
> >development version. If we act on this proposal, then "-latest" is
> >more intuitive than "-devel".
> 
> Ok I see the point. In other terms it is a pointer to a stable or
> -devel  version of the same port, like a virtual package depending on
> the right one ?

Yes, more or less.

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