New "file delete" implementation breaks ncurses

James Berry jberry at macports.org
Tue May 8 09:31:04 PDT 2007


On May 8, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On May 8, 2007, at 07:47, James Berry wrote:
>
>> If I understand Guido's suggestion, the workaround is to the  
>> Portfile, not to trunk, right? Who wants to fix it?
>
> Looks like you committed a fix already:
>
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/24928
>
> Why did that necessitate a revision bump, by the way? If I already  
> had ncurses successfully installed using a version of MacPorts  
> where delete works properly (<=1.4.3?), then there is no need for  
> me to install it again. And if I had a version of MacPorts with the  
> new "file delete" implementation (>1.4.3?), then wouldn't I have  
> been completely unable to install ncurses in the first place?
>

Hi Ryan,

I wasn't sure what state this caused things to end up in. I've  
removed the revision bump.

James



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