On 4.7.2008, at 21.22, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 4, 2008, at 12:08, Landon Fuller wrote: > >> On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: >> >>> The recent changes to the swig port have broken the scipy build on >>> Tiger, essentially the problem is that scipy requires the python >>> variant of swig to be installed. >> >> Swig's variants: >> swig 1.3.36, devel/swig (Variants: universal, doc, python, perl, >> gcj, guile, mzscheme, ruby, php4, ocaml, pike, lua, chicken, >> allegro, clisp, r) >> >> Why not enable some of these by default? Having none of them >> enabled makes swig useless, seems like defaulting to: >> - python >> - perl >> - ruby >> - php4 >> >> Would be a good start. > > Why is there a php4 variant but not a php5 variant? > > Enabling php4 by default would cause all swig users to have to > install php4. php4 is pretty much obsolete. The last normal release > of php4 was made 2008-01-03 and after 2008-08-08 there will be no > more releases of php4 at all. php5 is the current version. php5 and > php4 cannot be installed at the same time (with the way the ports > are set up currently). > > Hi, this is definitely something that has to be taken care of. I'll look into it asap.
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