"concurrent" qt4-mac: request feedback & testing for current port phase in Portfile?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Dec 10 04:43:28 PST 2014


On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:54 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> I've taken my courage with 3 hands, and started working on a +concurrent variant for qt4-mac, as a prerogative to having a ditto variant for qt5-mac (which won't even build when qt4-mac is installed).
> 

> 2 questions:
> - is this a good approach?

Not as a solution I would feel comfortable committing, no. Variants that change where files are installed are bad for dependent ports that need to know where the files are.



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