Question about updating guile to 1.8

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:59 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> --- Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:28:05 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke  
> > <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 08:38 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >>  I'm running into more problems with gnucash and lsh using
> > >> RUN_DEPENDS. I need to .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> before the !=
> > but if
> > >> I move it up too high in the file (before RUN_DEPENDS) then make
> > >> breaks. Would it be ok to just edit the dependency to be
> > >> "slib-guile>=3a4:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile" instead of
> > >>
> > "${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6/slibcat:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile"?
> > >
> > > This is fine.  Also, there's no dishonor in hardcoding the guile
> > > version.  It may look ugly, but guile's minor version hasn't
> > changed
> > > much, and it's not too hard to chase.
> > 
> > I agree with marcus, leave hardcore won't hurt as it doesn't change
> > that  
> > much. It's what I would do.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> > 
> 
> Is the proper way to submit such a change to bundle the guile update
> changes and the changes to the hardcoded dependencies in the same
> patch? I was afraid of making changes that would break other packages,
> and instead of worrying about them being in sync with my change, to
> remove the problem (hardcoded versions) before making the change.

Please submit all your work in one PR.  It will make it much easier to
commit, and chase things in all the dependent ports.

Joe

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