Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:22:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: asami@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for feedback: REQUIRES_OS_VERSION feature. Message-ID: <20793.833473364@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 May 1996 14:34:14 BST." <199605301334.OAA00366@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
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> How can you mark a port as working with *many* OS versions rather than just > the one. If you stamp something as requiring 2.2 then it will probably work Since you're just handing it off to grep (or maybe egrep) it can be any regexp matching one or more releases. > Hmm, I think "feature tags" are the only way to deal with this. Instead of > a REQUIRES_OS_VERSION string you have REQUIRES_2_2_VM etc and then somewhere > in the system you'd need a file that held these tags if they apply to that > version of the OS. i.e. a /usr/share/features file in 2.2 will have a Sorry, but "bleah" - that's just too much engineering for such a simple check! Jordan
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