On Sep 16, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> The problem with dots in port names is that so far "port lint" has declared > the dot an illegal character in a variant name. This has led the perl5 port > for example to adopt variant names like perl5_16 which I've always found a > little confusing. It has been nice that under the original naming scheme, one > could assume that in many cases the variant name matches the name of the > dependency that will be added. If you want to use the python27 port, you use > a port's +python27 variant, etc. > > Leaving the dot in would remove the ambiguity, as demonstrated by the Perl > ports, and "port lint" may be overly cautious in its prohibition of the dot > in variant names. Someone should do some tests. Make variants with dots, like > "mysql5.1", and see if they work correctly. Can you install the port? Can you > upgrade the port? Can you uninstall the port? What if other variants are also > selected? If everything works fine we can relax this lint restriction. A cursory glance at port.tcl suggests that periods are acceptable in variant names. http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_3_1/base/src/port/port.tcl#L287 vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
