subports

[Rainer Müller]

On 2011-04-22 09:05 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2011-4-22 16:46 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2011, at 16:07, jmr at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 78062
>>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/78062
>>> Author:   jmr at macports.org
>>> Date:     2011-04-21 14:07:51 -0700 (Thu, 21 Apr 2011)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> implement subports
>>
>> What's this?
> 
> See <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16723> for sample usage.

So if I get this correctly, subport provides several ports under
different names from the same Portfile. But what exactly can be
different in a subport? Could a subport provide a different version? I
could imagine this to be used for *-devel ports as well.

This probably also renders the 'current' pseudo-port unusable, except we
change this to current:subportname or something similar.

For the python example in this ticket, it should probably still be
depends_lib-append in the subport sections.

Rainer