On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:45, Vlado Plaga wrote:

> Still it is a lot easier to just update a few Portfiles, compared to
> building and testing so many different binaries (and providing a
> server infrastructure so people can actually download these),

Well, it should be architected so that the process is still the same for port 
maintainers: all they should have to do is update their portfile, and the build 
server would automatically kick off builds for each supported system, package 
it up, and make it available for download. That's the system we want that 
hasn't been built yet.

> obviously... and why should anyone do all this work for free for a
> non-free operating system?

For the same reason any of us do any work at all on MacPorts. Because it 
benefits ourselves and our community and we enjoy doing it.



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