Dependencies for taglib-devel in macports

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Oct 21 00:10:21 PDT 2009


On Oct 20, 2009, at 20:16, Orville Bennett wrote:

> taglib indeed does not have any qt4 dependency. That was an error on  
> my part
> and the cmake portgroup is quite correct. As for taglib-devel, it is  
> currently
> deprecated by taglib 1.6, as it's not quite so -devel anymore.
>
> @Adrian With the release of taglib 1.6 (in development for quite  
> literally,
> years) the taglib-devel port, which I added, is currently obsolete.
> At the time taglib-devel was added something more current than the  
> then
> stable (but quite buggy) taglib 1.5 was needed . I added taglib- 
> devel to track
> development in the more recent svn branch.
>
> taglib-devel, which _should_ continue tracking svn if necessary, is  
> currently
> *less* recent than the taglib 1.6. I don't anticipate personally  
> touching
> taglib-devel again as the taglib guys seem to be doing regular  
> releases again.
> Hope this clears things up (in other words whatever port you have  
> that's using
> taglib-devel switch it over to taglib proper)
>
> I'll probably remove taglib-devel soon unless interesting things start
> happening in svn again.

That would probably be a good idea, to avoid confusion. Or maybe  
better yet, you could leave it as a stub port, and use the  
"replaced_by" keyword to automatically upgrade users from taglib-devel  
to taglib.




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