quilt and GSoC

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday March 07 2015 16:15:22 Rainer Müller wrote:

> > Patches are applied in the order they are listed in the patchfiles option.

Yes, that's evident but that order wouldn't be defined if variants aren't evaluated in a predefined order (which I wasn't sure about).

> > Variants are always evaluated in the order they appear in the Portfile.

Which means that one has to be very careful with variant-dependent patchfiles, and that could be cases in which one has to provide multiple patchfiles to achieve the same modification (depending on what variant(s) have been selected).
I cannot recall having seen a remark drawing attention to that fact in the documentation.

> > This sounds useful, but would be way to easy to occupy a student for the
> > whole summer...

Fine with me :)


> With trunk, this would now generate what you need:
> 
> $ port -q info --line --patchfiles qt5-mac | tr ',' '\n'

Great, so we can hope to see that appear in the next release?

R.