Re: Platform versions and Binaries

2007-07-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: There is a upcoming problem that will occur with the binary archives/packages, in that most of the code currently only checks for ${os.platform} and ${os.arch} when looking for binaries, ignoring ${os.version} which might be important ? When you say this, what exac

Re: Platform versions and Binaries

2007-07-04 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
Rereading this initial post after Kevin committed r26693, with which we're now recording ${os.major}. On Jul 1, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: There is a upcoming problem that will occur with the binary archives/packages, in that most of the code currently only checks for ${o

Re: Platform versions and Binaries

2007-07-04 Thread Anders F Björklund
So we might need to include at least the major version in the paths used, so that they will become something like: darwin/9/i386/ darwin/9/ppc/ darwin/8/i386/ darwin/8/ppc/ darwin/7/ppc/ freebsd/7/i386/ freebsd/6/i386/ freebsd/5/i386/ ... There is now an ${os.major} variable that can be used fo

Platform versions and Binaries

2007-07-01 Thread Anders F Björklund
There is a upcoming problem that will occur with the binary archives/packages, in that most of the code currently only checks for ${os.platform} and ${os.arch} when looking for binaries, ignoring ${os.version} which might be important ? e.g. Panther and Tiger will try to use the same binaries and