On 2015-05-22 14:03, Russell Jones wrote: > MP does experimental with local port repos, I guess. Ports seem to vary > between testing and no maintainer (not an unknown problem in Debian > https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2005/07/msg00047.html ). Flagging the > port status is a good idea, but I think definitions and maybe a harder > division than that is required. PyPI allows that information to be > stored ("Development Status" > https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&c=5 ), but (that I've seen) > it's not part of a process in the way it is with Debian.
What would be the purpose of this development status indicator? What if a port flagged "stable" depends on an "unstable" port? The effect for the end-user would be the same: either the port works, or it does not work. They will not care about any status indicator. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
