On 2010-06-10 11:50:46 -0700, Toby Peterson wrote: > On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > > Yes, but that is tangential to the fact that any soversion bump for > > a support library in MacPorts currently forces a mass migration to > > the new version since there is no support for co-existing shlibs > > split-off packages with conflicting main development packages. > > Hoping for ABI stability isn't a solution.
Well, staying with the old library isn't a long-term solution either as the library won't necessarily benefit from the bug fixes (at least not all of them). > If there is a pressing need for both versions to be available, we > can certainly do the work required. In general, two versions are necessary when there are API compatibility problems, but in the case of MPFR, this shouldn't be necessary. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev