On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:34:47 -0500 Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On Apr 25, 2018, at 09:02, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:31:04 -0700 Ken Cunningham wrote: > >> Portfile authors need to manually "revbump" the library's > >> dependent ports when supporting libraries change significantly. > >> > >> It's not automatically figured out by MacPorts. > > > > Do we have a Trac issue for having it automatically determined, > > btw? > > I doubt it, since I doubt there's anything we can do about it. How > would you automate that? >
Some other packaging systems will calculate a dependency graph and then rebuild dependents of a package in the graph under some criteria (like the bumping of a major revision number for semantic versioning.) I think the NetBSD pkgsrc system does something like that. Some are a bit stupider and just rebuild everything dependent. (opam, for example, does the latter.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com
