On 30.1.2012, at 19.34, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:32, Wahlstedt Jyrki wrote: > >> On 30.1.2012, at 1.26, Dan Ports wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:28:04PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>>> I'm still really not comfortable with this strategy. Any user selecting a >>>> variant should get the same result; it should not matter what existing >>>> versions of other ports they have installed. >>> >>> In particular, this will probably not work right if installing a binary >>> archive from the buildbot or elsewhere. That package will be linked >>> against whatever library version the build system had installed >>> (presumably the default) rather than the one on the user's system. >>> >>> Dan >> >> Hi, >> a while ago, during an earlier version of the Portfile, I got the following: >> === >> We no longer want variant names starting with "with_", "without_", "no_", >> etc. These variants should be called "mysql5", "postgresql83", >> "postgresql84", "postgresql90" and "bdb", respectively. The bdb variant's >> functionality would be the reverse of what you currently have in the >> without_bdb variant. <snip> >> === >> So, naming conventions change, and unfortunately there is no smooth way to >> move to the new scheme!? > > The maintainer should supply legacy compatibility variants for a year, or > whatever period of time is deemed necessary to allow most users to have > upgraded. > > Ok, so if I restore the old "with_" variants, it should be ok?
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