On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes, but the limitation on variant names should not impact what we name ports.
If we want to offer variants for gst versions, we can use +gst010 or +gst0_10
vs +gst10 or +gst1_0 (I prefer the second method of s/./_/)
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