depends_build on minimal version?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 3:55 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday September 18 2014 05:23:15 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> No, and ports shall not care what version of another port is selected. The port select mechanism is for a user's convenience only, and shall not influence any port build.
> 
> I wasn't asking about port select ... 
> 
> You realise that this also implies that there isn't even an easy way to warn a user that s/he will need to install a newer port version of some dependency in order to build a given port, if the configure mechanism doesn't do this?

Pick the ruby you prefer to depend on and provide variants or subports for the other ruby versions you think should be supported.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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