Re: need help making a port for django

On 4 sep 2006, at 21.52, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> Hmm.  Could you explain to those of us less django-inclined just  
> why we need 4 separate versions of this one?   If there's a really  
> good reason then cool, just asking, but I'm sure you can also see  
> how this approach to all ports really wouldn't scale...

The Django project is not commited to maintaining backwards  
compatibility before 1.0. Keeping a single Django port would risk  
breaking MacPorts user's Django applications when they update. I  
think a removal of all pre-1.0 Django ports would be OK and  
reasonable some time after the 1.0 release.

If MacPorts where to keep only one port of Django at this point it  
should be -devel to signify users need to be aware of any upstream  
changes before they update.

I myself don't really see the need for -devel. Since if you want  
latest&greatest following Django trunk is a much better idea.

- Daniel