Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:49:42 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: depending on the shared libraries Message-ID: <200201191649.g0JGnhl11714@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200201191618.g0JGIlQ86731@aldan.algebra.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 19 Jan, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> I keep wondering, and keep asking this question, but noone feels like
> answering. Most of the ports don't care for the exact version number of
> the library they depend on. Be that jpeg.7 or jpeg.8, foo.N or foo.N+1
> or foo.N-1. However, the committers seem to religiously maintain the
> numbers and every time a library-installing port (like vorbis) is
> updated, the update is followed by a flurry of the commits updating the
> dependent ports.
[...]
> Granted, sometimes a particular feature of a library is important and
> requiring the exact version number makes sense, but that's so rarely the
> case -- libxine worked fine with vorbis.0 and will continue working with
> .1 and probably .2...
There was an API change between RC1 and RC2 of vorbis.
> As a result, any time I go to rebuild, say, ImageMagick, I notice it
> attempts to rebuild png, even though IM works just fine with the version
> of png I already have...
My opinion on this:
It would only make sense if we are able to specify version ranges, e.g.
"greater than .2" or something like this.
A work around would be to use no version number until the port breaks,
but a maintainer can't test the interaction with every old version the
port depends upon.
The actual way describes a known good dependency chain whereas your
proposal relies much more on problem reports.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net
GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201191649.g0JGnhl11714>