On 2011-10-18 02:11 , Arno Hautala wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:53, Jeremy Lavergne > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Tie in for what reason? >>> >>> What's your higher goal with the recovery partition / TimeMachine. >> >> We've had a recent thread (I think on -users) about making the >> installation of previous portfile versions easier.
A fairly obvious enhancement that is enabled by having binaries on a server is, when the user types 'port install foo @bar', attempting to download version bar. (The error reporting needed for this feature alone would actually fix #24520.) All the usual gotchas of installing an older binary would apply of course. Adding version ranges to dependencies would be the fix for most of them, and being able to fetch particular versions would allow dependencies on old versions to be handled automatically. This of course opens its own can of worms regarding detecting and resolving dependency conflicts. Getting that working well would put us in the position of having that new dependency engine that's been talked about for so many years. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
