[79657] trunk/dports/math/eigen3/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 23, 2011, at 15:26, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-6-24 06:01 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> Yup, the guide has not been updated for this change, which came about with Registry 2.0, which is the first that can record negative variants. Today, users who install MacPorts 1.9.x from scratch get Regstiry 2.0 whereas users who upgraded from MacPorts 1.8.x or earlier stay with Registry 1.0 (until they modify their macports.conf) (I think? Isn't that right?). With MacPorts 2.0 the old registry goes away at which point all users' registries will be able to remember negative variants.
> 
> That's incorrect, everyone running 1.9.0+ is using registry2.0 and has
> their negated variants remembered whether they are using flat receipts
> or sqlite.
> 
> The choice of using flat does go away in the next release.


Not enough room in brain for all these things. :) So then what was it that the sqlite registry gives us over the flat registry? Aside from being a proper database, which is a good thing already.