Do We Have depends_test?
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Tue Apr 5 16:41:52 PDT 2011
On 2011-04-06 01:22 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 18:09, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> New commands are not incompatible.
>
> Sure they are. A portfile using the new commands will cause a syntax
> error in old versions of MacPorts.
Okay. I meant they are backwards compatible in a way that port still
works with older Portfiles as input.
You are also right that we broke forward compatibility multiple times in
the past. As Joshua already pointed out, it was easier to do it this way
than to move to a new PortSystem version.
Rainer
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