Various on qt4-mac

[Michael Dickens]

OK; I'm going to take over qt4-mac and -devel, and update them per my
and your comments .. and we'll see what happens :)

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:29 -0500, "Ryan Schmidt"
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 22:02, Michael Dickens wrote:
> 
> > * Looking quickly at the Portfiles for qt4-mac and qt4-mac-devel, I see
> > not significant differences between them & the patch files.  Anyone know
> > why the latter exists?  It's difficult enough to keep up the regular
> > Portfile for the non-devel version (and, qt4-mac is actually ahead in
> > version number).
> 
> qt4-mac-devel is for the latest development version of qt4-mac. Currently
> it is more or less equivalent to qt4-mac, but ideally someone would
> update qt4-mac-devel to a beta of 4.7.
> 
> > * Anyone know why both qt4-mac and qt4-mac-devel are built as "release
> > and debug" combined?  Could we make a variant "+debug" which installs
> > the combined version, but with the default being just the release?  I
> > think there are many of us who are not Qt developers needing debug
> > libraries, and having just the release will be enough.  With this
> > variant, those who wish to do developing have that option.
> 
> I don't know. Perhaps having it be a debug build helps MacPorts
> developers when users report Qt-related bugs.
> 
> > * Anyone know why the pkg-config .pc files for qt4-mac are all of the
> > "debug" variety?  Why not include the regular by default, the debug when
> > using the "+debug" variant?
> 
> I don't know.