Portfile variants vs. subports recommendation

[Frank Schima]

On Jun 13, 2014, at 3:23 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday June 12 2014 22:13:34 Jason Mitchell wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> For projects with several forks, i.e. more than stable and devel, what
>> is the preferred Portfile treatment?  Consider git-flow, which uses the
>> canonical nvie GitHub (GH) repository that is inactive.  Of nvie's ~1000
>> forks, at least 2 are useful:
> 
> I'd have a similar question for the oxygen-gtk port I've proposed. It exists for GTk2 and GTk3, and while they have their own versioning scheme/schedule it could make sense to treat them as subports ... if of course that allows to install both at the same time.

Yes, subports would be the way to go, have oxygen-gtk2 and oxygen-gtk3 ports. 


Cheers!
Frank