From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 16:45:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFCA16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:45:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFD8043D49 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:45:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2005 16:45:12 -0000 Received: from pD95D886A.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (217.93.136.106) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 21 Feb 2005 17:45:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from [192.168.8.4] (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1LGir3M005765 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:44:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:44:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050221142951.GA48781@pc5-179.lri.fr> <20050221153615.GE9175@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050221155832.GJ51280@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20050221155832.GJ51280@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2615970.TYGKCRubbX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502211744.52024.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Marwan Burelle cc: Simon Barner cc: Kirill Ponomarew Subject: Re: devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:45:19 -0000 --nextPart2615970.TYGKCRubbX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 21. February 2005 16:58, Simon Barner wrote: > Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > > A proper solution for this would be a slave port devel/pcre-utf8 that > > > enforces the use of the WITH_UTF8 option. (See e.g. devel/boost and > > > devel/boost-python for an example). > > > > OTOH we can't afford to create slave ports for almost every > > configure option. > > Yes, you're right, since there are exponentially many combinations of > options, creating slave ports is not the right way. > We probably need a mechanism [...] Don't overengineer. Slave ports pretty much *are* the right way to deal wit= h=20 this sort of situation - which is that *some* option is too controverse to = be=20 either default off or default on. This does not at all imply that you need = to=20 translate *every* option there is (or could be imagined) into a slave port. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart2615970.TYGKCRubbX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCGhADXhc68WspdLARAh/NAJwMfMtuNUM9m7S3hfWYt2PrGYZ18wCePeHg DNTuyyZE9Q6OZ5YZWSmVkVc= =FPJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2615970.TYGKCRubbX--