Removing support for include statements

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 26, 2010, at 11:11, Rainer Müller wrote:

> with MacPorts 1.9 we will begin to store Portfiles into the registry to
> run activate/deactivate hooks later. For this, we cannot use the include
> statement anymore as sourced files are not being stored in the registry
> and therefore would not be available later.
> 
> As far as I was able to determine I was the only one maintaining ports
> which use include which had been added before I took maintainership. Now
> I already removed the include statements from vim, vim-app and bash.
> 
> Any objections to completely removing include from port1.0?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

> PS: On a related note, from 1.9 on the versions in PortSystem and
> PortGroup need to declare a stable interface or otherwise we will have a
> similar problem.

Hm, yeah, we haven't been incrementing that version number at all. What kinds of changes would necessitate increasing that version number? Any changes we've already done in the past for example?