Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:52:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Edward Wolpert <wolpert@methodsystems.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databas Message-ID: <XFMail.000827125205.wolpert@methodsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000827202609.A29786@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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(Lurking, I thought I add comments into the fray...)
Well, to add to your point, there is a port for lang/perl5, but no
lang/perl, as there use to be years ago. (If memory serves me well...)
There is also bash1 and bash2. (Of course, the perl port doesn't seem
to make sense anymore... with the port for version perl5.005_02 and
perl5.005_03 being the system default, but that's besides the point.)
The issue, from what I can tell, is what version of postgresql is
supported by the maintainer. Personally, I'd rather not have the
version number in the name of the port, but there really isn't another
way when there are multiple version available. (bash1 vs. bash2)
As far as should postgresql 7.x be called postgresql7 or postgresql,
I somewhat agree with Klemm about the 'what if' case below. However,
if this is the case, then the 6.x version of the port shouldn't have
been deleted in the first place.
(It's too bad that the port system doesn't have the ability to 'choose'
the version number desired... or have multiple versions able to be
installed. Though I understand that the complexity of the port system
would grow greatly.
On 27-Aug-00 Andreas Klemm wrote:
> What if Postgresql team would decide to bring out patches for people
> that want to stay with Postgresql version 6. This must not but might
> happen.
>
> Then it would be an advantage to simply grab the old stuff out
> of the attic, to bring it back und make the update.
>
> This would not be possible if I would merge the newest stuff into the
> old postgresql port ...
>
> What about that ?
Virtually, | Open/Web Systems Architect
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