Do We Have depends_test?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Apr 5 14:49:28 PDT 2011


On Apr 5, 2011, at 16:46, Larry Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Apr 4, 2011, at 06:25, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> 
>>> I know we've got just about every other phase covered but is there a depends_test?
>> 
>> No, but we probably should. I've seen several ports committed in the past months with comments that certain dependencies should really be depend_test if we had it.
> 
> Is that something that would warrant bumping the PortSystem version
> from 1.0 to, say, 1.1?

We didn't bump the PortSystem version when we added depends_fetch and depends_extract not too long ago (or at any other time as far as I know).

> Or is the PortSystem version meant for some
> other kind of change?

I have no idea what it's meant for or how it's meant to be used.




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