On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Well, let's also be careful not to conflate multiple, desirable goals here - that only increases the size of the task and the attendant risk of seeing nothing happen.
My initial propose was very simple and pragmatic, indeed. We don't have a central building machine, we don't have binary packages, we have difficulties in testing universal packages. But we have an "archive mode", we can produce packages, we can temporarily create a symbolic link to switch off /opt/local/sandbox. If you are a commiter or even a simple user that has spent hours while building a MacPorts subtree from scratch, please share it with us, so we can speed up the commits by the currently few volunteers. Do you have the latest Monodevelop compiled for Quartz or Carbon, an advanced scientific software packaged from SourceForge into /opt/local, an optimized Blender 3D? Please upload your archives so we can commit the new patches starting from there. I had to build for hours the latest LAMP server, GCC, boost, qt4-mac, GStremer codecs, WebKit, gnome 2.22 from scratch only in order to test the uncountable untested broken ports. It took me days to build them after assuring that I was using the latest available versions: other users/committers could make use of my GBs of precompiled binaries. Benjamin Reed from the Fink project is offering his 3 GB builds of KDE by using BitTorrent: that's a simple and effective initiative based on DMGs which even developers can benefits from. We have already the well-made free Porticus GUI and we have already the new sqlite receipt database engine in Leopard's Apple InstallerPackageMaker: we only need pkgutils to fully support --unlink, reference counting and dependency analysis. But even if pkgutil was hosted on MacOSForge, probably it would ignore MacPorts like the Xquartz, ZFS, MacRuby and WebKit projects are doing now, even if they are technically real "Mac ports"! - Guido _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
