Naming convention in Debian/GNU Linux solves your problem. Take python for example. They provides a meta package named "python", which requires the stable python (2.4 or 2.5?). That's nice. However, I think achieving it in MacPorts would be quite difficult...
On Feb 7, 2008 11:03 PM, Emmanuel Hainry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Citando js : > > > On Feb 7, 2008 1:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I think -devel is better. > > > >> For one thing, it's more intuitive. > > > > > > 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". > > > > I agree with you, > > but I think that the situation that devel-ver < stable-ver is very rare. > > I've never seen it. (By newer, you means the version number is greater, > > right?) > > So I don't agree with that proposal. > > -devel = development is more frequently used > > so, at least for me, -devel is more natural and intuitive. > > > > Actually, I prefer simple name like > > mysql51 or python30 instead of mysql5-devel or python30-devel, but I > > found this naming convension is not popular ;) > > The problem with such names is that to decide which port to install you > have to search the project website to know which version is the most > suitable for you. Seeing that there are 5 different postgresql port (7, > 80, 81, 82, 83) makes me quite puzzled, which one is considered stable? > Is the oldest deprecated and only there for backwards compatibility or > is it the stable version and all 8x are more or less cutting edge and > presumably broken. Is there an even is unstable, odd is stable > convention? > > The irssi, irssi-devel case on the other hand is quite clear, if you > want stable, go for irssi, if you need latest features, go for -devel. > > zsh and mutt are however bad examples as the considered stable version > is too old lacks many features (and probably security). > > I therefore prefer the -devel naming, but would like to have some not > tagged stable but proved enough ports to become the stable version (it > is up to the maintainer to decide if it should be upgraded or not in the > end). > > Emmanuel > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev