MPFR in MacPorts

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-06-10 11:50:46 -0700, Toby Peterson wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > Yes, but that is tangential to the fact that any soversion bump for
> > a support library in MacPorts currently forces a mass migration to
> > the new version since there is no support for co-existing shlibs
> > split-off packages with conflicting main development packages.
> > Hoping for ABI stability isn't a solution.

Well, staying with the old library isn't a long-term solution either
as the library won't necessarily benefit from the bug fixes (at least
not all of them).

> If there is a pressing need for both versions to be available, we
> can certainly do the work required.

In general, two versions are necessary when there are API
compatibility problems, but in the case of MPFR, this shouldn't
be necessary.

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