Batch replace for livecheck.type and svn.revision

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 07:51, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 19:09, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> I am totally in favor of a batch change, but I would like to give  
>> users
>> a few days of grace period for updating their MacPorts installations.
>> Let's say a week is enough? That would be next friday.
>
>
> Note that we already crippled MacPorts for users of 1.7.1 and  
> earlier on August 29 by adding license info to 35 ports, including  
> openssl (which has 274 dependents) and most of the gcc ports (50  
> dependents). We've set livecheck.type in git-core, so anything that  
> fetches via git won't work (13 ports). Before realizing the  
> implications, I used depends_extract in pango, thus making  
> unavailable on 1.7.1 it and all its dependents (30 ports) -- one of  
> which is gtk2 (219 dependents). We could undo these changes now and  
> redo them at a later time, but really I would rather focus on moving  
> forward with 1.8.0.

I agree.  Let's keep moving forward.  In the future, perhaps we should  
wait a week after a new release, but now that it's done, let's not  
back track.