Need advice on a problems with the Django CMS port

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, Scot Hetzel wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:38 PM, xenophon\+freebsd
>> <xenophon+freebsd at irtnog.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I maintain the Django CMS port (www/py-django-cms).  I could use some
>>> advice on the following problem both from other maintainers and from
>>> other users of the ports tree:
>>>
>>> Django CMS requires a database backend, which it accesses through the
>>> Django web app framework.  The Django port (www/py-django) doesn't
>>> include database support by default.  If someone naively runs "cd
>>> /usr/ports/www/py-django-cms; make install", Django CMS won't work
>>> properly because of the missing database drivers.  The Django port does
>>> have knobs for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, but those knobs don't
>>> affect what bits of Django get installed.  All the knobs do is add
>>> databases/{py-psycopg2,py-MySQLdb,py-sqlite3} to the Django package's
>>> RUN_DEPENDS.  As I see it, I have the following options:
>>>
>> :
>>> (c) I could add knobs to the Django CMS port similar to those found in
>>> the Django port (i.e., add to RUN_DEPENDS if knob is set) -
>>> functionally, it doesn't matter which port pulls in the required
>>> database drivers.  This is probably the most user friendly, in that a
>>> single run of "make install" will result in a working version of Django
>>> CMS.
>>>
>>> I think option (c) is the best, but I'd love to hear what the community
>>> thinks.
>>>
>> Option C would be the best, as the port depends on a database (MySQL,
>> PostgreSQL or SQLite).
>>
>> I believe the following would work with the new options framework:
>>
>> OPTIONS_MULTI=          DATABASE
>> OPTIONS_MULTI_DATABASE= MYSQL PGSQL SQLITE
>
> This should be OPTIONS_SINGLE and OPTIONS_SINGLE_DATABASE, as you only
> need one of these.

Depends on the port.  If it can use more than one database system at a 
time, then the OPTIONS_MULTI "at least one of these" would be right.