On 2013-11-7 11:19 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2013, at 13:30, Frank Schima wrote: > >> On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> >>> I am wondering why MacPorts has left their cvs port on the stable 1.11.23 >>> release rather >>> than upgrading it to the feature 1.12.13 release and using the patches from >>> Apple's cvs-45 >>> release in Xcode 4.6... >>> >>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/cvs/cvs-45/ >>> >>> Is there some reason this port is not being sync'd to Apple's last cvs >>> release (since >>> that is now deprecated out of Mac OS X with Xcode 5)? >> >> $ port info --maintainers cvs >> maintainers: nomaintai...@macports.org >> >> Because the port has no maintainer and there are no update tickets filed >> against it. > > Also because we typically use stable versions of software in MacPorts, unless > there’s a good reason not to. (And there may be a good reason here; I’m not > sure.)
1.12.13 appears to be from 2005 and 1.11.23 from 2008, so that's probably also a factor. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
