Multiple copies of the same port
Pav Lucistnik
pav at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 6 18:33:12 GMT 2004
V so, 06. 11. 2004 v 19:26, Aaron Dalton píše:
> I am currently maintaining the port devel/p5-Heap-Simple which currently
> requires perl5.6. The author has released a new-and-improved version
> that now requires perl5.8. As not everybody runs 5.8 (I currently do
> not) I would like to keep the 5.6 version available. I am new to port
> maintanance and am unsure how to proceed:
>
> 1) Should I just ignore the 5.8 version and leave the port at perl5.6?
>
> 2) Should I submit the perl5.8 version under a different name? If so,
> what is the convention?
>
> 3) Or should I simply clobber the 5.6 version with the new perl5.8 one?
>
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
More and more things require 5.8 anyway, so I'd suggest bullet 3)
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