> 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.)
That would require validating requested variants be done using the Portfile from within the archive. > 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. Are we going to push in the direction of that dependency engine? _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
