Update qwt to 6.1.2

[ghweber@…]

Hi,

The attached Portfile adds a qwt61 variant (replacing the qwt-devel variant that installs an outdated release 6.1 release candidate), which installs the current Qwt 6.1.2

The following changes are necessary:

• Update Portfile according to attached patch
• Remove: files/patch-designer_designer.pro.610rc3.diff files/patch-qwtbuild.pri.610rc3.diff files/patch-qwtconfig.pri.610rc3.diff files/patch-qwtfunctions.pri.610rc3.diff
• Add attached: files/patch-designer_designer.pro.61.diff files/patch-qwtbuild.pri.61.diff files/patch-qwtconfig.pri.61.diff

A few comments:

• When trying to update patch-qwtfunctions.pri.61.diff from the old release candidate build, linking failed. Omitting the patch seems to do the right thing.
• I am not sure if I need to add something to ensure that existing installations of qwt-devel get upgraded to qwt61.
• If I am not mistaken, the variants "debug" and "examples" do not do anything and could be removed.

Gunther

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ghweber@…:

The attached Portfile adds a qwt61 variant (replacing the qwt-devel variant that installs an outdated release 6.1 release candidate), which installs the current Qwt 6.1.2

You mean subport, not variant.

• I am not sure if I need to add something to ensure that existing installations of qwt-devel get upgraded to qwt61.

Yes, you do: you need to retain a qwt-devel subport, which contains the line replaced_by qwt61. The version or revision of qwt-devel also needs to be increased to cause the replacement to occur. See ​https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.practices.html#development.practices.rename-replace-port

[ghweber@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Replying to ghweber@…:

The attached Portfile adds a qwt61 variant (replacing the qwt-devel variant that installs an outdated release 6.1 release candidate), which installs the current Qwt 6.1.2

You mean subport, not variant.

Yes, I did.

• I am not sure if I need to add something to ensure that existing installations of qwt-devel get upgraded to qwt61.

Yes, you do: you need to retain a qwt-devel subport, which contains the line replaced_by qwt61. The version or revision of qwt-devel also needs to be increased to cause the replacement to occur. See ​https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.practices.html#development.practices.rename-replace-port

I tried to modify the Portfile accordingly. However, I cannot figure out how to make this work properly with subports. I am attaching a diff and the Portfile for my attempt. When I try to install qwt-develp, it still tries to download the distfiles (even though I have an empty distfiles line as indicated in the instruction) and does not print the error message listed in pre-configure.

How do I make this work with a subport?

Gunther

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Cc Me!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Add qwt61 subport

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

I've attached my attempt at adding qwt61 - note that this won't build now due to recent Qt issues - see ticket 49143

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

Michael, it looks you've committed most/all of this - can this ticket be closed?