Re: need help making a port for django

Makes sense. I'll rename py-django095 to py-django, and remove the 
others. Thanks for everyone's help!

-e

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 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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