On Jan 28, 2013, at 12:19, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> I'd prefer names like:
> gstreamer-1.0 and gstreamer-0.10
> Should we have a policy of 1.0 by default, 0.10 by variant?
The problem with "-X.Y" suffixes (instead of our traditional "XY" suffixes) is
that they cannot be used verbatim as variant names ("-" is not a valid
character in variant names). We've seen this problem already in regard to the
clang-X.Y ports when ports offer variants to use these compilers. But in the
case of gstreamer I think it's ok, because I don't see any reason why a port
should offer a variant for any version of gstreamer. Shouldn't each port just
use the best version it can, and not offer a choice? Why should the user be
made to care about the version of a dependency?
> Would you mind putting the new gst* ports into an overlay on github or as a
> branch in svn, so we can easily stay up to date with any changes you plan on
> making? The changes to other port dependencies can be left out for
> simplicity.
Agreed; I'd like to see these new ports in a ports directory in Ryan
Stonecipher's user directory in the MacPorts Subversion repository, until
they're ready to move to the main dports tree. I suggest our repository because
I think we should be able to be self-sufficient in our infrastructure and not
need to involve other systems.
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