Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:00:26 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: charon@labs.gr (Giorgos Keramidas) Cc: fenner@research.att.com (Bill Fenner), jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za, obrien@freebsd.org, sobomax@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/devel/automake/files patch-ab patch-ad Message-ID: <200110260400.f9Q40Qd03834@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20011025232050.B2786@hades.hell.gr> from Giorgos Keramidas at "Oct 25, 2001 11:20:50 pm"
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> > > > >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? No we don't yet another port with a million versions. If the new autoconf and automake is really that incompatable with the older stuff, maybe we should repo-copy the current automake and autoconf ports to *-lagacy and then we can upgrade automake and autoconf to the latest _released_ versions. Then the ports that break can be set to use the -legacy version and there is no confusion about what you should use when starting something new that will use automake or autoconf. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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