On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > On 04/19/2012 10:16 AM, Joshua Root wrote: >> On 2012-4-20 02:40 , Sean Farley wrote: >>> I'd like to discuss /review the latest patch here: >>> >>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33821 >>> >>> As I point out in the ticket, it is extremely useful to retain >>> debugging symbols for libraries (optionally set with +debug). My >>> co-workers and I have been using this for about two years now with no >>> problems whatsoever and we'd like to see it in the core of macports. >>> Thoughts? >> >> I don't doubt this is useful to you, but I really don't want to have to >> support it. It's inevitably not going to work right in some cases, and >> when you provide a variant people understandably expect it to work. The >> target audience is also comparatively small. >> >> At this point I'd probably rather not accept it at all, and just let you >> continue to provide it as a third party patch. If we did decide to >> include it, I'd at least want it off by default with a config knob for >> those who know they need it. > > When you're debugging something, having debugging symbols available in the > package management system is very handy, so I'm +1 for having this feature.
It doesn't make sense to me as a base feature, though. Maybe as a portgroup? You can (pretty) easily add it to any portfile you care about, and it's obvious that you are doing something wonky/unsupported. The vast majority of people using MacPorts don't care about debugging symbols (and aren't going to experience any benefit from them) - adding an automatic variant that may or may not work to every port seems like overkill. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
