Deprecation of options (was: Re: [MacPorts] #17349: svn.tag should be called svn.rev)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 01:02, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2009-03-17 04:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> And I wasn't aware of option_deprecate.
>
> It was dead code before, but I revived it and made it actually work.
>
> I also would like to deprecate livecheck.check and rename it to
> livecheck.type in the same way for consistency with other phases.

Agreed!

> This
> will affect a lot of ports, but I think we can simply work that out  
> with
> one mass-change after 1.8.0 is released.
>
> Anything else to consider while I am at it?

Not right this moment. We can add more later if we think of it.