Support for native_version use statements

[garonne]

The suggestion is for support for

use Foo * -native_version=1.2.3

This would require that Foo declared the Foo_native_version macro to be set to 1.2.3 (in this example).

CMT team's answer

This implies to overide the macro Foo_native_version within the glue package. Useful probably for testing external package in a fast way. See ticket

[garonne]

David's comment:

My intention with this one was not that the:

use Foo * -native_version=1.2.3

should override the Foo_native_version macro, but that CMT should fail to find a package match unless Foo_native_version was set to 1.2.3, exactly as it would behave if there were two packages, one of which had

use Foo v1

and the other had

use Foo v2

CMT responds by issuing a warning and choosing one. This is the response I'm looking for.

[garonne]

To summarize:

By specifying:

use Foo * -native_version=1.2.3

and having:

Foo v1 with native_version=1.0.3
Foo v2 with native_version=1.2.3
Foo v3 with native_version=1.2.3

you would like to get Foo v3. Correct ?

Is it make sense for several glue package to make reference to the same native_version (here v2 and v3)