Scripts Requiring a MacPorts Version (was Re: Troubles using port_binary_distributable.tcl)

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Tue May 20 19:52:14 PDT 2014


Do our version numbers mean nothing?

It would seem our own scripts that do break on releases should be smart enough to realize a change in MacPorts version.

On May 20, 2014, at 22:45, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On May 20, 2014, at 19:56, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>> Is this something we should have the scripts check before running? If the MacPorts version is newer than they’re expecting, demand the user download a fresh copy.
> 
> This seems like overkill to me. Most MacPorts releases haven't made the types of internal changes that were made in 2.3.0 that cause changes in scripts to be necessary.



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