Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#34466 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Add variant 'extra' to install HEAD, GET, POST

Reported by: robsonpeixoto@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.0
Keywords: haspatch Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Port: p5-libwww-perl

Description


Attachments (1)

p5-libwww-perl_get_head_post.patch (734 bytes) - added by robsonpeixoto@… 12 years ago.
extra variant to add HEAD, POST and GET

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Change History (2)

Changed 12 years ago by robsonpeixoto@…

extra variant to add HEAD, POST and GET

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: nomaintainer@… removed
Keywords: haspatch added
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

It is an error to install a binary called "HEAD" on a system with a case-insensitive filesystem like most Macs. Doing so leads to extreme badness as it conflicts with and can override the system's "head" binary which serves an entirely different purpose. There have been countless examples of this over past decade, both in MacPorts and elsewhere. We should not add this variant.

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