[89221] trunk/dports/editors/nedit/Portfile

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Jan 23 02:21:11 PST 2012


On 01/23/2012 01:38 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2012, at 11:35, raimue at macports.org wrote:
>
>> Revision: 89221
>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/89221
>> Author:   raimue at macports.org
>> Date:     2012-01-21 09:34:59 -0800 (Sat, 21 Jan 2012)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> editors/nedit:
>> Remove platform block as we are always building for darwin.
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> And if I write a patch that is specific to OS X and would cause problems on other OSes, I do strive to put that in a "platform darwin" block to make that clear to anyone else reading the portfile.

I understand your point, but the Portfile specifies "platforms darwin" 
and thus, is meant to be for Darwin/Mac OS X only. I know we do not 
enforce what is given in platforms, but do we really need to care about 
other target OSes?

Rainer


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