On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:13:33 -0600, Flex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also agree with you Jeremy. devel/boost-devel makes no sense as it is a
stable and not a development version.When there are so much ports that
depend on devel/boost (as version 1.34) then I see two approaches to
solve
this.
1.) Try to find out if boost 1.37 is binary compatible with boost 1.34.
If
so, then we could update it to the actual version without breaking the
ports
depending on it, IMHO. I made this a question to the boost irc channel
and
got only the answer that this is doubtable so far.
The binary compatible does not matter as it only forces us to wait until
complete unfreeze. We can bump all of other ports to get rebuild. What
about the API (source) compatible? It's more important than ABI (binary)
compatible as we need to make sure others can build with newer boost.
2.) We should think of one or two alternative boost port(s) like
devel/boost137 and devel/boost138. All depending ports must be made
dependant to devel/boost137 then. Other ports also keep two ports with
their
(often major) release numbers and switch dependent ports back and forth
to
the right port release number.
We don't need devel/boost137 either if all other ports can build with
newer boost or easy to get others fix with newer boost. We should avoid
two same exactly libraries in ports tree if they don't do the parallel
installation (non-conflict) as possible unless no choice to do two or more.
I'd prefer the second because there are less side effects and problems
possible.
Also please note that http://home.leo.org isn't accessible anymore.
Hopefully someone, preferrably Alexander, has the 1.35 patch from Simon
to
check whether it's easy to bump the port to 1.37 easily. I also agree to
send a PR.
Yeah, two people have told me about that URL is dead. Too bad, I don't
have this file anymore.
Cheers,
Mezz
/Flex
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