I'm currently working on a OSS project (SpamAssassin) which is in a pre-release 
rush and which I ultimately test & deploy via MacPorts.

I'd *like* to be able to switch from the current supported release in MacPorts 
to a fresh build from a Subversion checkout without manually mimicking what MP 
does (in part because I'm not 100% confident that I am doing it right) so that 
I can do testing iteration in a more efficient and repeatable fashion. This 
would be a different level of 'reckless cowboy' beyond the '-devel' ports we 
already have here and there with prerelease software.

I expect that this does not exist (I can't find anything...) but that it could. 
MP would need to always do a fetch/checkout/update/pull from the source control 
repo (I presume it would need BOTH svn and git support) and require use of a 
secure transport to make trusting the code without tarball checksums reasonable.

Does anyone else like the idea of this? See a need? Hate it? Already have a 
private tool for this?

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Bill Cole
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