MPFR in MacPorts

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-06-10 11:50:49 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Exactly the point. MacPorts sorely needs the same sort of split-off
> feature as fink where a libmpfr2-shlibs/libmpfr3-shlibs split-off
> package could contain the required runtime shared libraries which
> can co-exist but the main libmpfr2/libmpfr3 packages with the
> development headers and shared lib symlinks would conflict. The
> absence of such a capability in MacPorts is a major limitation
> to proper package migrations. One simply can't expect to force
> all packages in mass to migrate to new soversions of a support
> library, Some backward compatibility support has to be retained
> through co-existing shlibs split-off packages.

Note however that in the case of MPFR, ABI breakage is rare. IIRC,
ABI compatibility had been preserved since November 2004.

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