On 2013-4-15 10:44 , Marcelo Galvão Póvoa wrote: >> There are multiple reasons why a port might not be available as binary: >> - First, binary downloads are only used when some configuration >> variables are still at their default, e.g. prefix=/opt/local, >> applications_dir=/Applications/MacPorts. >> - Second, we only build the default variants of every port. Building >> every possible combination of variants would probably be >> computationally expensive. We're trying to gather statistical data to >> build popular variants, but that work hasn't been deployed yet.
> I think approaching the second point would be interesting in this > project. Is there a tool to gather these statistics available > somewhere? I'm doubtful that this alone would be sufficient for GSoC. A simple config file checked into svn and some small changes to the MPAB script would be all it takes to build multiple variant sets per port. Gathering the stats was a previous GSoC project. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
