py-twistedweb2 and py25-twisted-web2 uses different name convension

js ebgssth at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 04:27:03 PST 2008


Then, is my request rejected?
Who has the power to decide this kind of issue?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2008, at 14:33, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>  > On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Feb 29, 2008, at 09:20, js wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> I noticed that twisted for python2.4 and 2.5 uses different name
>  >>> convension.
>  >>> I opened new ticket http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/
>  >>> ticket/14375
>  >>>
>  >>> Shouldn' they use the same convension?
>  >>
>  >> Sure, it would make sense for the common parts of the port name to
>  >> be the same.
>  >
>
> > The problem is this breaks the upgrade path. Anybody with py25-
>  > twisted-
>  > web2 will lose the ability to update their port if it gets renamed to
>  > py25-twistedweb2. They'll have to discover this problem on their own
>  > and uninstall py25-twisted-web2 and install py25-twistedweb2.
>  >
>  > The only workaround I can think of for this is to push a dummy update
>  > for py25-twisted-web2 that errors out on fetch with a message saying
>  > to uninstall and reinstall py25-twistedweb2, but that's ugly and
>  > unfriendly.
>
>  Still wish we had the "superseded_by" feature in MacPorts base so it
>  would be easier to rename a port:
>
>  http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-July/002219.html
>
>  http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-December/
>  003767.html
>
>
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