[89444] trunk/dports/databases/libgda5/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:32, Wahlstedt Jyrki wrote:

> On 30.1.2012, at 1.26, Dan Ports wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:28:04PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> I'm still really not comfortable with this strategy. Any user selecting a variant should get the same result; it should not matter what existing versions of other ports they have installed.
>> 
>> In particular, this will probably not work right if installing a binary
>> archive from the buildbot or elsewhere. That package will be linked
>> against whatever library version the build system had installed
>> (presumably the default) rather than the one on the user's system.
>> 
>> Dan
> 
> Hi,
> a while ago, during an earlier version of the Portfile, I got the following:
> ===
> We no longer want variant names starting with "with_", "without_", "no_", etc. These variants should be called "mysql5", "postgresql83", "postgresql84", "postgresql90" and "bdb", respectively. The bdb variant's functionality would be the reverse of what you currently have in the without_bdb variant. <snip>
> ===
> So, naming conventions change, and unfortunately there is no smooth way to move to the new scheme!?

The maintainer should supply legacy compatibility variants for a year, or whatever period of time is deemed necessary to allow most users to have upgraded.