Guido Soranzio wrote: > On trunk several pieces of Gnome 2.22 have been already committed > sparsely without coordination: almost a nightmare.
Why is this a nightmare? Gnome ports got no maintainer, so others did what they could. > Let's suppose that someone (me!) is busy building Gnome again from > scratch and he is offering his archives/packages to the others in > order to save humanly the battery life of their portable: why > shouldn't you trust him (me!)? We have a lot of supported platforms: Panther ppc, Tiger i386, Tiger ppc, Leopard i386, Leopard x86_64, Leopard ppc, Leopard ppc64. Can you provide packages for all those? > Currently MacPorts doesn't offer OpenOffice, nor Mono, nor KDE 4, > nor X.org, nor Java 6: how can we afford to accomplish these valuable > porting efforts if every committer/submitter is building again > and again his personal tree? FreeBSD has them thanks to dedicated > teams and a building cluster: that's the way to go. Step up and provide ports for them if you think they are valuable. What's the problem with building them yourself? So you can choose the variants you want. > [...] > Ever heard of MacRuby? Yes, it is here on Mac OS Forge. We have a port for ruby. If they provide valuable patches, integrate them (upstream, as variant or just as default patchfiles). Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
