Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:33:05 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiple copies of the same port Message-ID: <1099765984.902.120.camel@hood.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <418D173B.8070205@daltons.ca> References: <418D173B.8070205@daltons.ca>
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V so, 06. 11. 2004 v 19:26, Aaron Dalton p=ED=B9e:
> I am currently maintaining the port devel/p5-Heap-Simple which currently=20
> requires perl5.6. The author has released a new-and-improved version=20
> that now requires perl5.8. As not everybody runs 5.8 (I currently do=20
> not) I would like to keep the 5.6 version available. I am new to port=20
> maintanance and am unsure how to proceed:
>=20
> 1) Should I just ignore the 5.8 version and leave the port at perl5.6?
>=20
> 2) Should I submit the perl5.8 version under a different name? If so,=20
> what is the convention?
>=20
> 3) Or should I simply clobber the 5.6 version with the new perl5.8 one?
>=20
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
More and more things require 5.8 anyway, so I'd suggest bullet 3)
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
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