Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/inputmethod/iiimecf

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:14:33PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:10:14PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > This causes pbulk to say:
>  > > 
>  > >    Accepted versions are: emacs21 emacs21nox emacs20
>  > >    No valid Emacs version installed found
>  > > 
>  > > which I guess is because the default emacs version is 23. This is also
>  > > not the only package that exhibits this behavior.
>  > > 
>  > > Joerg, is there any way to make pbulk smarter about this?
>  > 
>  > Emacs is not using the multi-version support, so it is not a problem of
>  > pbulk.
> 
> That doesn't answer the question...
> 
> So, what *is* it doing, and can it be made smarter? Deploying proper
> multi-version support for emacs is probably a good idea (given that we
> have at least a dozen emacs versions and possibly more) but not during
> a freeze. However, there's already a good bit of logic in there and
> it's doing *something*...

The multi-version logic is what triggers using a non-default version for
Python et al. I don't know if picking the first version supported by
EMACS_TYPE is a good idea for this packages just to enable them in bulk
builds.

Joerg