protobuf-cpp (was Re: Request for assistance closing some old pull requests)

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:46:54 -0500 Ryan Schmidt
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> > 2: mosh: Switch to protobuf3-cpp
> >   https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/690
> >   Aug 17, 2017
> > 
> > Zero King correctly notes in the course of the PR's comment thread
> > that protobuf3-cpp conflicts with protobuf-cpp, so all
> > protobuf-cpp using ports probably should be migrated.
> > 
> > This seems entirely straightforward to do (I made the needed
> > changes in my own git repo in a couple of minutes) but rather
> > difficult to test. To close this out, we probably need some
> > volunteer who is in a position to test such an update.  
> 
> I would prefer that the bug that protobuf-cpp and protobuf3-cpp
> install to the same place is fixed first:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56102
> 
> Then there's no reason why the ports can't be updated individually
> as time permits.

This is beyond my technical capability as I still don't understand
the MacPorts infrastructure well enough. Could you or someone else
commit to fixing this? I can then shepherd the updates of the
individual ports much more easily.

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Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org