<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica Neue" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica Neue">That's not how image mode works now - and I'm not sure that we want to impose the burden of verifying abi/api compatibility between releases on every portfile author (if we were to add hooks to make things work that way).</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>You'd prefer that burden be foisted on the users, eh? Those who are perhaps least qualified to diagnose and fix the problem? :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The fact that API/ABI compatibility is frequently broken is an ugly little secret of our business and somebody, somewhere, always ends up dealing with it. For fan-out reasons alone, that someone should be as far upstream as possible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Jordan</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>