Proposed API changes before pkgsrc-2006Q1

●To: tech-pkg%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost ●Subject: Proposed API changes before pkgsrc-2006Q1 ●From: Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost> ●Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:03:51 +0100

Hi,

since we are approaching another stable release of pkgsrc, the probability of pullup requests decreases continuously, so this is a good time for doing API changes that would be a burden to pull up to the stable branch.

The REPLACE_INTERPRETER forces package authors to define variables whose name starts with an underscore. And, even worse, this is _documented_ in the pkgsrc guide. Since a few minutes, the variables REPLACE.* and REPLACE_FILES.* can be used as aliases for _REPLACE.* and _REPLACE_FILES.*.

The SITES_* variables do not follow the naming conventions of parameterized variables, in which the parameterized part is separated by a "." instead of a "_".

Both changes work from now on. The remaining question is when to replace the use of the old variables with the use of the new ones.


Roland

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