depends_build on minimal version?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.

Or just choose a single version. If a specific Ruby port is only required at build time, this is a decent option to go with.

vq