Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> writes: > 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).
I agree that it would be better to do releases more often. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
