On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:29:53AM +1100, Joshua Root wrote: > 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
I would note that Apple has distributed cvs built from 1.12.13 since Xcode 3.0. Jack _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev