Release 1.5 branch created

[Anders F Björklund]

Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> 	Not sure if it's necessary as I believe I already stated my position 
> clearly, but I'll do it here again just to be safe. I believe James' 
> comments above echo my position to a large extent, even though he 
> states his somewhat more firmly and stricter. Maybe in the long term 
> we can reach a middle point somewhere, but in a nutshell we agree 
> fully on what the project course will be.
>
> 	The extra mile I'm willing to go and which I could negotiate for is 
> keeping support for other platforms in as long as there are active 
> interests maintaining it, just as there are now, and as long as they 
> work hard to keep the compatibility code from becoming the development 
> impacting roadblock James talks about above.
>
> 	As long as those two points are met I don't see a problem in keeping 
> support for other platforms in, this is an open source project after 
> all and we do embrace these ideals!

I think it's important that the "base" of MacPorts remains Open Source,
and usable with such operating systems - whether it's Darwin or FreeBSD.

And I do believe that items such as License metadata (Trac Ticket #7493)
is much more important than petty issues like Noarch metadata (#12206) ?

> 	Hope MacPorts on FreeBSD rocks as much as on Mac OS X, keep up the 
> good work Anders!

I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work just as good on that 
system.
(granted the number of ports is much smaller, but I mean the base and 
RPM)

Can give it a whirl on (Pure)Darwin 8.0.1 as well, see how it goes 
there ?
It would also have to use GNUstep of course, there is no Cocoa for 
Darwin.

--anders