renaming vtk ports

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 4/30/09 macports-dev-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:40:26 -0700
> From: Darren Weber <dweber at macports.org>
> To: macports-dev Development <macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org>
> Cc: tgamblin at cs.unc.edu
> Subject: renaming vtk ports
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> 
> I'm working on vtk ports this week, mainly vtk-devel.
> 
> Given prior discussion in the mailing list and ticket 19000
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19000
> 
> We've agreed to rename:
> 
> vtk -> vtk4 or vtk44  (I've created vtk44 in the svn trunk).
> vtk5 -> vtk
> vtk54 -> vtk-devel  (Done, in the svn trunk.)
> 
> The svn trunk currently contains (At revision 50417):
> vtk/
> vtk-devel/
> vtk44/
> vtk5/
> 
> With
> vtk @ 4.4.2
> vtk44 @ 4.4.2  (This is a copy of vtk, with an old version name)
> vtk5 @ 5.2.1
> vtk-devel @ 5.4.0  (Still working on this)
> 
> The next step to "renaming" the ports is to move vtk5 over to vtk and then
> remove vtk5, leaving
> 
> vtk44 @ 4.4.2
> vtk @ 5.2.1
> vtk-devel @ 5.4.0
> 
> What is the best way to proceed with this?  Maybe:
> 
> svn delete vtk
> svn rename vtk5 vtk
> 
> Apart from the practicality of to change the svn repository, what are the
> implications for the ports system?  I have nothing installed that depends on
> these ports, so 'port dependents vtk' will not show me anything
> interesting.  Is there a master dependency tree somewhere that can show what
> ports specify vtk as a library dependency (or is there an easy shell command
> to get this, using find to get all the Portfiles and grep or something to
> pull out lines with 'vtk' or something)?  If we can identify these
> dependencies, we can also change those Portfiles.

Related to vtk ports, I want to point out a ticket I submitted today:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19492

I report that using x11prefix for libGL does not work on Tiger.  Since 
x11prefix is going away, it is probably a good idea to correct this 
regardless of the problem on Tiger.

Thanks,
Jonathan