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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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
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