Temporary slib *downgrade* acceptable?

[Carl Menezes]

Thanks for that. It will be a huge deal to be able to use GnuCash on  
the Mac. How long would a change like this take to appear across the  
mirrors? Just so I know when to try next. Thanks again - gotta say,  
this is the first mailing list I've come across where people respond  
with helpful info really quick and something gets done really quick  
too. Kudos to you guys.

Carl

On 16/11/2006, at 6:41 AM, Mark Duling wrote:

> 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.)
>
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