Split Trunk

[N_Ox]

Le 2 oct. 07 à 13:05, Michael Wild a écrit :

> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> For MacPorts 1.6.0,
>>
>> I think you should split the "dports" trunk in two,
>> "trunk" and "release", just as done with the "base".
>> There is just too much port breakage with running the
>> latest developer version on the user machines, IMHO.
>>
> I second that.
>
> Or perhaps a bit a more elaborate scheme like fink uses it: namely  
> a stable and an unstable tree.
>
> Would make things much more reliable.
>

I would rather see this problem resolved by working on a major  
modification against base/ code:
multiple versions for each port.

Only one tree would be required, and we could use a fine-grained  
dependency system as it is in Gentoo Portage.

>
>> It also needs a cooler name... Such as "Evolution",
>> as in: I'm running the latest MacPorts Evolution. :-)
>>
>
> If people want fancy names...
>
>> --anders
>>
>
> Michael


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