Temporary slib *downgrade* acceptable?

[Mark Duling]

Under the circumstances I think that backing the port down to the previous
version is fine.

Mark

Marc André Selig <mas at seligma.com> on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 9:26
AM -0800 wrote:
>the recent slib upgrade to 3a4 gives us (well, me) more headaches  
>than I would wish for.  GnuCash does not work with versions 3a2 and  
>3a4 of slib, only 3a3.  The last few days, all of the time I can  
>spend for MacPorts was busy instructing people how to manually  
>downgrade slib to 3a3.  I have tried to provide a package "slib- 
>stable" with 3a3, but this would have to filter through too many  
>ports to make it actually desirable.
>
> From a cursory grep at the dports directory, it appears (I may be  
>mistaken!) that the only ports that actually use slib are GnuCash and  
>lang/gauche.
>
>Also, that the major reason slib was upgraded for MacPorts seems to  
>have been that the sources for 3a3 had moved and the people fixing  
>this thought the upgrade to the latest alpha release was the simplest  
>solution.
>
>Are my premises correct?  Would it thus be acceptable for me to  
>actually revert the slib portfile to version 3a3 (including a fix for  
>the source location)?  For a limited period of time?  It would  
>certainly make life easier for anybody wanting to use GnuCash on OS  
>X.  (fink is no alternative, since it does not yet provide GnuCash 2.0.)