License question

[Mark Brethen]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2012, at 5:24 p.m., Mark Brethen wrote:
> 
>> Looking at the pure Portfile, In don't quite follow:
>> 
>> if {${name} == ${subport}} {
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> Is everything in-between the curly brackets read only if user issues 'port install pure'?
> 
> Yes. Another common idiom is
> 
>> if {${name} != ${subport}} {
>>    <lots of stuff>
>> }
> 
> where the port itself is treated as a stub port that just depends on one of its subports, and the meat of the port only takes effect when a subport is selected. There are a couple of decent examples linked at the bottom of this MacPorts wiki page: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Python
> 
> vq

I have a couple of choices: 1) as mentioned above, split the reduce port into 2 subports: reduce-csl (which builds the csl lisp base reduce) and reduce-psl (which just fetches precompiled psl lisp binaries) or  2) reduce builds csl by default and a subport, reduce-psl, which fetches the psl binaries. CSL has many options of its own, such as building wx instead of fox. And both have the option of building 32-bit instead of 64-bit.

Which makes the most sense? 

Mark