On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:14 AM Craig Leres <le...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I'm working on a port for mailman 3. I want to use django 2.1 because > that's what I'm using on the systems I'm currently running mailman 2 on > you can't really run different version of django on the same system). > But it turns out a lot of ports have RUN_DEPENDS for www/py-django111. > > One possible solution would be to change these dependencies to the > www/py-django meta port. This allows the user pick the version of django > via py-django options. But I see a bunch of ports got added last month: > > www/py-dj21-django-cors-headers > www/py-dj21-django-debug-toolbar > www/py-dj21-django-filter > www/py-dj21-django-js-asset > www/py-dj21-django-mptt > www/py-dj21-django-tables2 > www/py-dj21-django-taggit > www/py-dj21-django-taggit-serializer > www/py-dj21-django-timezone-field > www/py-dj21-djangorestframework > www/py-dj21-drf-yasg > > which are the py-django21 version of the py-django111 ports with similar > names. > > Anyway the current situation prevents folks from using py-django20 if > that's what they want. And a ton of changes will be needed when django22 > (currently in beta) arrives. > > The downside I see to changing dependencies from py-django111 to > py-django is that only the py-django111 versions of things were get > built/tested automatically (due to py-django111 being the default > version). And I think there are issues for ports that don't work with > all version of django (is there a way for a port's Makefile to know what > version of django got installed?) > > Are there other problems? > > Are there other solutions? Flavors comes to mind but I'm told "doubly > flavored" ports (python flavor vs. django flavor) are very difficult. > > Without any changes I'll need to add DJANGO111 and DJANGO21 to my > mailman 3 port and forget about folks being able to use django20. This > will be extra messy because mailman 3 is split across several different > packages.
Hi, Please don't use the django metaport, this port should be removed and people should stop using hacks. Someone needs to integrate a USE_PYTHON=django in python.mk Antoine _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
