port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

Ken Cunningham ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 12:49:27 UTC 2020


yes, it's variant names that can't have + and - in them. Momentarily crossed that wire.

K

> On Aug 7, 2020, at 00:01, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 6, 2020, at 09:10, Ken Cunningham wrote:
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>> So a port that installs the Zoom teleconferencing application would be called "zoom_binary". (We can't use "zoom-binary" because variants us the + and - to do their thing.)
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> Calling it "zoom-binary" would be fine. Yes, "+" and "-" are used to select and deselect variants, but MacPorts allows "-" in port names; we already have thousands of ports with "-" in their names.
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