[48432] trunk/dports/irc/irssi-devel/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 18:48, blb at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 48432
>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/48432
> Author:   blb at macports.org
> Date:     2009-03-21 16:48:43 -0700 (Sat, 21 Mar 2009)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> irc/irssi-devel - use svn.revision on MacPorts 1.8
>
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>     trunk/dports/irc/irssi-devel/Portfile
>
> Modified: trunk/dports/irc/irssi-devel/Portfile
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/dports/irc/irssi-devel/Portfile	2009-03-21 23:38:12 UTC  
> (rev 48431)
> +++ trunk/dports/irc/irssi-devel/Portfile	2009-03-21 23:48:43 UTC  
> (rev 48432)
> @@ -18,7 +18,12 @@
>  homepage            http://irssi.org/
>  fetch.type          svn
>  svn.url             http://svn.irssi.org/repos/irssi/trunk
> -svn.tag             ${version}
> +# When 1.8 is released, svn.revision can be set without the if{}
> +if {[info exists svn.revision]} {
> +   svn.revision        ${version}
> +} else {
> +   svn.tag             ${version}
> +}

Why bother to make this change now when you'll change it again after  
1.8 is released? Why not just leave it as is until after 1.8 is  
released?