Simon Ruderich wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:58:57PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: >> Revision: 45792 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/45792 >> Author: [email protected] >> Date: 2009-01-21 23:58:56 -0800 (Wed, 21 Jan 2009) >> Log Message: >> ----------- >> update maintainer tag >> remove freebsd platform > > Hi, > > Why are you removing the freebsd platform? I know MacPorts is now > MacPorts, but if the ports also work on different platforms I > don't think we should break it deliberately.
Actually the platform statement is not used at all at the moment and is not checked against the OS platform when installing a port. But it is a mandatory field for a Portfile and can be used by maintainers to express on which platforms this was tested or is supposed to work on. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
