kile-devel to stable version

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Jul 5 10:21:24 PDT 2011


On Jul 4, 2011, at 02:18, Russell Jones wrote:

> Nicolas Pavillon wrote:
> 
>> Currently, Macports holds kile in two versions, being kile for KDE3 (ver. 2.0.1), and kile-devel for KDE4 (ver. 2.1b5). Recently, kile 2.1 for KDE4 has been released as a stable package. I would thus to transfer kile to a stable port, and if I understand correctly Macports policy, I should do the following steps:
>> 
>> 1. Create a new portfile kile2 (is the name appropriate ?) for the stable version of KDE4, which conflicts with kile-devel
>> 2. Upgrade kile-devel, make it conflict with kile2, and make it as a stub port indicating that kile2 should be employed instead.
>> 
>> Is indeed this approach correct ? and if yes, would there be an example of this type of stub port that I could employ as reference to create these new ports ?
> 
> I don't know if there's a policy, but kile-kde4 would seem like a more descriptive name. I can't really find any port names of that form, though. Alternatively kile21, (like python25. emacs22, etc) 

Does anybody still want a kile port for kde3, if one for kde4 is available and works? Why not just upgrade the kile port to be the latest stable version for kde4?






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