Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:50:35 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r395628 - in head/www: . py-pyocclient Message-ID: <55E4155B.9050508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <60AE5AFE75834B0EA7620055@atuin.in.mat.cc> References: <201508301655.t7UGtEVx037588@repo.freebsd.org> <55E3CED6.3010703@FreeBSD.org> <CAFU734xKRBuFNQTKvb59v0eK4qmzFHwZiWWUBqahG5G5SJXyXw@mail.gmail.com> <55E3E915.7060300@FreeBSD.org> <20150831055703.GA44646@FreeBSD.org> <55E3EF7B.2010404@FreeBSD.org> <60AE5AFE75834B0EA7620055@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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On 31/08/2015 5:07 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 31 août 2015 16:08:59 +1000 Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > | python:2 unfortunately implicitly means 'depend on the lang/python2' > | metaport, "not any version of 2.x" > | > | We have a little bit of work to do: > | > | 1) Easy way to declare only 'any version' of 2.x / 3.x > | 2) Support for a,b,c in USES:python: > | > | With (2), (1) may not be needed, depending on how upstream specifies > | their 'supported versions' > > I was about to ask what's wrong with python:2, which does say "any version > of 2.x" as we only support 2.7, "any version of 2.x" means [2.7] which is > always true. > That may be true (regarding the *result*), but is actually an implicit (and incorrect in this case) declaration of a dependency on the meta-port(s). The correct (current) declarative method for "only/any 2.x" is python:-2.7. The versions we do or dont support are orthogonal to correctly and accurately describing the supported versions (as per upstream). As mentioned, there is room for improvement. ./koobs
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