Re: doxygen changes, PLIST, and doxygen required level

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Given all this, I think we should treate doxygen like a library, and
> have a buildlink3.mk file for it, with default to build-depends only,
> and a required ABI variable, defaulting to the latest version that
> changed the ABI (as viewed above).  Because this is build only, we don't
> need recursive PKGREVISION bumps.
>
> This still leaves all the packages that install doxygen-generated files
> needing fixing, but I don't see a way around that work without dynamic
> PLIST generation.

We have control over what's in pkgsrc, and what gets installed.
If we need a newer version for proper functionality, require it being 
installed. I wouldn't try to support all old versions, if such changes as 
you describe are needed.

My $0.05.


 - Hubert