wxPython versus wxWidgets

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 09:17, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Michael Dickens wrote:
>> Other questions:
>> 
>> + Why set "dist_subdir ${distname}/${version}"?  Why not just
>> ${distname}?
> 
> Simply because that's the way it's set up in current
> wxWidgets/wxWidgets30/wxWidgets-devel Portfiles and the new ports
> would use the existing distfiles. If that sounds like deprecated
> behaviour, it can easily be changed.
> 
> I checked and one of my other ports, gnuplot, also uses this strategy,
> mainly because the pdf documentation always has the same name (it
> comes from a different location, but under the same filename).

Stealth updates are one reason why we change a port's dist_subdir; sharing distfiles with other ports, to avoid users having to download (or our mirrors having to mirror) the same file multiple times is another. If the setting you've chosen will result in users and mirrors not having to download a second copy of a file they already have, then by all means please keep it, but consider changing it back to the default if and when the ports are updated to a version that has not yet been fetched by anybody.