Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:44:47 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Subject: Re: devel/pcre and WITH_UTF8 Message-ID: <200502211744.52024.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20050221155832.GJ51280@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20050221142951.GA48781@pc5-179.lri.fr> <20050221153615.GE9175@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050221155832.GJ51280@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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--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--
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