Re: SDK check

On Mar 3, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> I'm in the process of making some modifications to fink to use tests
> which are more Xcode-version-independent (as well as allowing for
> Xcode 4.3 not to have to sit only in /Applications).  I found
> something a little weird (to me, anyway) in the MacOSX SDK check
> portion of VirtPackages.pm:
> 
> =item "system-sdk-*"
> 
> These packages represent the SDKs available in /Developer/SDKs, available
> as part of the Xcode tools.
> 
> =cut
> 
> 	my @SDKDIRS = qw(
> 		MacOSX10.0.0.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.1.0.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.2.0.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.3.0.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.3.9.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.4.0.sdk
> 		MacOSX10.4u.sdk
> 	);
> 
> 	if (opendir(DIR, '/Developer/SDKs')) {
> 		push(@SDKDIRS, grep(/MacOSX.*.sdk/, readdir(DIR)));
> 		closedir DIR;
> 	}
> 
> It seems kind of strange to have the list of defaults and then to push
> the actual installed SDKs onto that, in particular since the defaults
> seem archaic.  Do we currently need to display anything earlier than
> 10.3.9, since Xcode for 10.5 doesn't come with anything earlier?
> 
> For that matter, should we display SDKs that aren't even available for
> the OS X version in question?  Right now, with fink-0.32.3, on Lion
> (with Xcode 4.3) we show:
> 
> $ fink list -t sdk
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 4460 packages read in 1 seconds.
>   	system-sdk-10.0	10.0.0-1	[virtual package representing the Mac OS
> X 10.0 SDK]
>   	system-sdk-10.1	10.1.0-1	[virtual package representing the Mac OS
> X 10.1 SDK]
>   	system-sdk-10.2	10.2.0-1	[virtual package representing the Mac OS
> X 10.2 SDK]
>   	system-sdk-10.3	10.3.9-1	[virtual package representing the Mac OS
> X 10.3 SDK]
>   	system-sdk-10.4	10.4.0-1	[virtual package representing the Mac OS
> X 10.4 SDK]
>   	system-sdk-10.4-universal	10.4-1	[virtual package representing the
> Mac OS X 10.4 Universal SDK]
> 
> They show as not installed, which is true, but I think they shouldn't
> even show up at all.  (The 10.6 and 10.7 SDKs don't show up here
> because of the changed SDK path for Xcode 4.3)
> 
> I'd propose having only displaying SDKs that are available for a
> particular Xcode, (e.g. 10.3.9, 10.4u, 10.5 for Xcode 3.0 or 3.1;
> 10.6, 10.7 for 4.x).
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'd say yes, except that I doubt we need to support anything older than 10.4u, unless it's known that there are any supported packages that use something older.

Daniel


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