[136318] trunk/dports/devel/autoconf/Portfile

[David Evans]

On 5/14/15 8:15 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On May 14, 2015, at 3:43 PM, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> I understand what you're saying, but this seems to me to be in the
>> category of fixing things that aren't broken.  In addition, it
>> complicates maintenance by opening us up to perl version specific
>> problems on the various platforms, particularly older ones.
>>
>> I would favor depending not on the system perl or perl5 but use the
>> default perl (currently perl5.16).  This is in line with our general
>> perl guidelines and ensures consistent behavior on all platforms
>> regardless of the system perl version.
> I agree with this policy 99.9% of the time, but I think autoconf merits
> an exemption:
>
> - As the maintainer, I of course take responsibility for any issues that
>    arise. I have access to systems with Leopard through Yosemite and have
>    not seen any regressions or inconsistencies due to this change.
> - I want devs to be able to add "use_autoconf" or "use_autoreconf" to
>    their ports if necessary without worrying about the relatively large
>    Perl dependency. I would like to liberate Automake also, but I haven't
>    looked into it yet.
> - It's very widely used.
> - It's a relatively small application.
> - It's updated infrequently, so I don't expect any disruptive changes.
>    The repository only has 11 commits since the beginning of the year.
> - Even Tiger has a new enough Perl.
>
> vq
>
Well, I'm not convinced but we can agree to disagree.  Your first point is
the really the only one that is necessary.  I'll know who to call if I 
run into
any problems. :-)

Dave