We've had some confusion expressed on the lists and IRC about what needs to be installed when folks see "Can't resolve dependency xcode (>= 4.5) for package ...". Unfortunately, since this happens during the dependency resolution phase, there really isn't a hook in Fink to tell people what to do until they attempt to run "fink install xcode", and so it's natural to update the app but not the CLI tools when seeing this message.
We've been using "xcode" as denoting the aggregate version of the command-line tools because historically for monolithic Xcode releases the app and CLI tools were released together, and it was normally changes in the latter that we cared about. However, I think it might be a good idea to phase out "xcode" gradually--validator warning at some release to be replaced by an error in a later one--and replace it with e.g. "xcode-tools" or "xcode-cli". Unfortunately we can't have "xcode" continue to exist as a Provide from one of the latter, because most every case of a BuildDepends: xcode is versioned. We'd keep "xcode.app" unchanged. as pertaining to a need for Xcode.app--or to use xcodebuild. Also, the idea of comparing the "xcode" (or replacement) and "xcode.app" versions--at least the first two digits since those seem to be meaningful, and marking the lesser of the two as outdated. That will warrant a little testing, since I don't think we've ever had virtual packages marked as outdated before. Any thoughts? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
