Guido Soranzio wrote: > We are in serious need of: > > 1. An open repository where to exchange precompiled archives in > order to avoid the lengthy compilations of the dependencies.
Which requires 2. > 2. A buildbot on a central server which automatically builds > and tests the proposed portfiles in a chroot'ed environment. This would require the LoggingProposal [1] to be implemented first. > 3. A "testing" branch for the beta-testers who would like to help > transitioning to development releases without breaking > the main trunk (i.e. Gnome 2.22, Python 3.0, KDE 4.0, ...). We discussed this before and voted against it. We already have the *-devel ports. What we really need would be a better dependency engine which can handle alternatives and versions. Also, multiple versions of a port would be good. There is of course much to do with MacPorts, but we are still lacking a roadmap... Rainer [1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/LoggingProposal _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev