[146550] trunk/dports/devel/libgit2/Portfile

[David Evans]

On 3/15/16 10:23 AM, Sean Farley wrote:
> 
> David Evans <devans at macports.org> writes:
> 
>> On 3/14/16 4:38 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>>> Thanks for following through!
>>>
>>> libgit2 makes so many breaking api changes that its subprojects (pygit2,
>>> libgit2-glib, etc.) should really be part of the same repo so that they
>>> all get updated and released at the same time.
>>
>> libgit2-glib is actually a subproject of and maintained as a component of gitg.  It only exists because libgit2 doesn't
>> provide the introspection data required by gitg which is written in vala.
> 
> Personal rant: something, something same repo. (pygit2 might even be
> worse in this regard)
> 
>>> I've already forked pygit2 to download and install the corresponding
>>> libgit2 version so that it can be installed into a virtualenv. Quite the
>>> hack, but seems to work for now.
>>
>> libgit2 and libgit2-glib updated to version 0.24.0 in r146698 after a quick response
>> from the gitg developers.
>>
>> Sorry you had to do this.  Hopefully, we can coordinate better in the future.
> 
> No worries. I think this is a great example of having per branch builds
> / code review before things go into main.
> 

Absolutely.