On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:27:42 -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman
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Simon Barner wrote:
|> | Yes, I am working on a port. I will send a message to freebsd-ports
|> | once it is ready for testing.
|>
|> While your at it please make it so there is one boost port not boost
and
|> boost-python
|
| I will keep boost and boost-python in seperate ports in order to
| keep boost as lean as possible. boost-python will no longer conflict
| with boost but just add python support. The same applies for OpenMPI
| and MPICH support.
|
| Simon
|
Have you ever examined the ports that actually use boost and
boost-pyhton... it seems completely random sometimes which one is which
(i.e. stuff that doesn't require pyhton often depends on boost-python
and stuff that does depend on it relies on boost).... this leads to some
really nasty conflicts and hard to resolve (unless you have done it
before) ordering problems (if I build port A then B then B will fail
because it wanted one flavor of boost when the other one is the
installed one but if you do B then A then it works fine because A
doesn't care what flavor of boost it is looking for).... the classic
example of this is net-p2p/deluge and multimedia/miro where deluge wants
python and miro doesn't care.... Since it is trivial to have a
Opposite, Miro wants python and Deluge doesn't need it. But I think in
next major version of Deluge 0.6 might want boost-python (uncheck).
build/ruin depend on an OPTION (and you already do it via a gnob no more
complexity it added by doing it as an OPTION)... Almost every time I
have brought boost problems up the overwelming consenus among
maintainers that relie on boost is two seperate ports is completely
insane.
You should read his comments again. He said, 'boost-python will no longer
conflict with boost but just add python support.' It's what I have
requested sometime ago and exactly what we need. Thanks for your work,
barner, and look forward for it! I have been a bit busy lately, but I will
try to find time to test it when you have patch available.
BTW: Seperate ports aren't insane if done in right way....and very nice to
have.
Cheers,
Mezz
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