cairo-devel is ancient/broken

Mark Duling mark.duling at biola.edu
Wed Mar 21 09:54:55 PDT 2007


Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at
12:12 AM -0800 wrote:
>I'd say nuke it, along with pango-devel and glib2-devel. Should I do  
>it? Sigh... I forget again: is there an easy way to tell if any ports  
>depend on those?
>
>Unless... I mean, we could certainly update them to glib 2.13.0, and  
>pango 1.17.0 and cairo 1.5.0 when they're available. But I don't know  
>what would require those devel versions. The latest stable versions  
>of each are really pretty good, as far as I can tell.

Sounds like we have a consensus for nuking.  I'd say go ahead if you want
to.  If there are reasons down the road to have them, they can be
recreated at revision levels that actually work.  Better than having
broken ports that confuse people.

Mark




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