Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 18:09, markd at macports.org wrote:

> N_Ox writes:
>
>> By the way, it should be noted in the new guide that export tarballs
>> are preferred over checkout ones.
>> I don't need all of those .svn and CVS, I just want the sources.
>
> You mean to state that it is preferred that port authors checkout from
> CVS, tar up only the source directories, and put it on  
> macports.org?  As
> opposed to using fetch.type cvs?

I think he means it is preferable to tar up the output of "svn  
export" (or whatever the equivalent CVS command is) and put it on  
macports.org rather than tar up the output of "svn checkout" (or  
equivalent CVS command) and put it on macports.org.