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From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 02:07:35PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> >The same goes for autoconf. The latest ntp code for instance needs version
> >2.52, so we can't just keep on hoping that it will disappear.
> 
> My experience with newer autoconf a few months ago is that it is not
> backwards-compatible, so we'd need to create a way to have multiple
> autoconf versions installed.

Well, devel/automake and devel/automake-current is what I was thinking about,
and this scheme is used for ports like postfix already (although these are not
to be installed at the same time).

Perhaps a scheme like emacs19, emacs20, emacs21, ..., with the executables
being properly named at install time? Then we could have both automake ->
automake.X.Y.Z (the stable, tested, whatever you want to call it, version),
and automake-VV where VV a number identifying the latest automake?

-giorgos

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