On 2009/06/08 22:55, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > I haven't had a lot of time to think about this... > > From matthieu.he...@laas.fr Fri May 22 16:56:02 2009 > > joshua stein wrote: > > > if this update doesn't break presentations like it did > > before (which is why it was reverted to 1.09), then remove > > the hack comment and you can avoid setting pkgname. > > It probably still does, since the breakage (for deraadt and > henning) is caused by magicpoint switching to more modern > font handling, causing the layout of slides to change enough > to make some existing slides unreadable. > > We'll probably need 2 ports a "legacy" and a "current" one. > > Later magicpoint versions aren't broken because they changed the way > they rendered fonts to use a more modern method. They may break > old presentations because of it, though, and that's a valid concern. > It makes sense to me to have two versions if this is the case. > Otherwise we're basically freezing magicpoint for the sake of > backwards compatibility, which, while important, shouldn't be the > only consideration in my humble opinion. > > If the rest of you disagree, *hides* okay! :-)
Noting that there aren't any other ports depending on magicpoint (which would cause a headache), I think this is a case where having two versions makes a lot of sense.
