MySQL variant names

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Tue Sep 16 10:54:21 PDT 2014


On Sep 16, 2014, at 1:37 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Personally I would be in favour of +mysql5.5, +mariadb10.0 (also in
> favour of renaming the port to mysql-5.5), but then again we have a
> zillion of ports using +gcc48, +python34, +clang34 etc. If there is no
> reason not to allow the dots, it would be nice to allow them, but then
> we also need  to start thinking about ways to gradually replace the
> option names in all other ports.

+1. Everything looks nicer with dots.

vq


More information about the macports-dev mailing list