checking for variant behaviour

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Aug 9 21:13:14 PDT 2014


On Aug 9, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Mark Brethen wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Coin's aqua variant is problematic because it completely changes where are installed. There should instead be a Coin-framework subport which installs the framework version and the main Coin port can install just the non-framework version. Then ports like SoQt that need the framework version can depend on it by name.
> 
> Talking with the Coin developers, they are moving to the framework version on mac os.

Ok, so then we should make the Coin port do what the aqua variant does all the time and remove the aqua variant. And then rebuild all ports using Coin (which is fortunately not that many) and make sure they still work this way. There's also the option of doing both at once, like the qt4-mac port does: install a framework, but also install symlinks at the old non-framework locations.



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