[macports-ports] branch master updated: Add optimizations variant to python{27, 35, 36, 37}

[Eitan Adler]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 at 16:59, Perry E. Metzger <pmetzger at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:46:59 -0700 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 at 13:30, Perry E. Metzger
> > <pmetzger at macports.org> wrote:
> > > It can take tens of minutes instead of a minute or two to build
> > > when you turn it on. That's quite different from the fairly slight
> > > change that normal optimization brings.
> >
> > Does it change the amount of time to install a binary package? For
> > most users the cost will be paid by the builders, not the users.
>
> Many people build from source.

(a) This doesn't matter. It is certainly the case that the vast majority don't.
(b) Those that do build from source can disable the option. Those that
don't, have no way to enable it.



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Eitan Adler