[40784] trunk/dports/devel/distract/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Oct 14 17:40:25 PDT 2008


On Oct 14, 2008, at 18:46, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Have you tested what happens if a user has "DisTract" installed and
>> then you update the port to a new version when it's called "distract"
>> and the user needs to upgrade? Does "port outdated" consider
>> "DisTract" and "distract" to be the same thing -- does it properly
>> suggest the new version? Does the upgrade work properly?
>>
>> Probably when the port name and directory name do not match, it's
>> better to change the directory name rather than the port name.
>> Perhaps the lint message should be changed to suggest that.
>
> Port names are case insensitive in trunk, but I'm not so sure this  
> will
> work properly in 1.6.

Are you telling me we should have those new portmgrs actually do a  
release? :P



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