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

[Wahlstedt Jyrki]

On 30.1.2012, at 19.34, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Ok,
so if I restore the old "with_" variants, it should be ok?

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