On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > since I've done quite some base development since the last release I figured > I'd chime in and offer my opinion. > > Releasing the stdlib changes is certainly a good idea IMO. However, I'd argue > we should drop the check currently present in rev-upgrade that will print > warnings for ports built against a non-default stdlib – it generates a lot of > warning noise for some ports, is not always easily fixable and useless for > users. We should rather enable it on demand or move it to a different place > (post-destroot perhaps?). > > A couple of stuff that could be done with new base, which I think is totally > ready to be released ASAP: > - curl post command and r116820 for package statistics. > Some server-side and Portfile stuff still needs to be done for the > statistics, but we'd have a base release ready for it. > - Check for command line tools and Xcode license agreement. > In r115900, we've seen a lot of reports of missing command line tools > lately that could be solved by that. > - Working trace mode. > I've been building with trace mode enabled exclusively for the last 3 > months and I'm pretty confident it's ready for a release. We could even > modify FAQ#buildfails to suggest trying with trace mode on for all the people > out there with a clobbered /usr/local.
yay! > - r113704 fixing a regression quite a few people encountered with the > sandboxing stuff. > > So, in general, I'd welcome a timely release of 2.3 :) > > I have the private copy of Tcl 8.5 coming up in the pipe and almost done, but > if I'm not getting that done in on time it could wait for another release. It would be nice if we could do a release now and another release when that's ready (and just in general do releases more often). -- 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] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
