Re: need help making a port for django

FWIW, I think we should go with just one version of any port (whatever  
version is deemed most appropriate) and only add other versions when  
and if it becomes clear that they're actually needed.  Django may have  
broken compatibility for the last 3 releases, but given that MacPorts  
has no actual users of Django yet, the whole "backwards compatibility"  
argument is slightly suspect and would be far more applicable if  
MacPorts had been tracking Django all along.

- Jordan

On Sep 4, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:

> No, thats a good question. It all really depends on MacPorts, and  
> their policy with backwards compatibility. I ran into this issue  
> before with another one of my packages, py-scipy. It's unclear how  
> we should go about updating packages that result in  
> incompatibilities. For the larger projects, such as gtk, it makes  
> sense that we keep around gtk1 while supporting gtk2. For smaller  
> packages though, it's hard to tell when we should, and should not,  
> support older versions.
>
> Any of the senior MacPorts folks around to resolve this policy  
> decision? I personally don't mind doing either, I just personally  
> don't want to make a call that could potentially break other  
> people's stuff. So, could you? :)
>
> -e
>
>
> 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...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Jordan
>>
>> On Sep 4, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Daniel and Mark!
>>>
>>> I've checked in py-django090, py-django091, py-django095, and py- 
>>> django-devel (uses a specified version from subversion, currently  
>>> 3712).
>>>
>>> -e
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