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

[Arto Bendiken]

On May 15, 2015 5:15 AM, "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv at macports.org> 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.

This is a welcome improvement from my POV as a user and port maintainer. I
certainly know a newbie or two who were put off from using MacPorts when
they tried to install something seemingly trivial and that unexpectedly
pulled in "half the world".

-- 
Arto Bendiken | @bendiken | http://ar.to
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