Split Trunk

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 2, 2007, at 16:16, N_Ox wrote:

> 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.

For what purpose? We already have the situation that when we want to  
make, say, both apache 2.0 and apache 2.2 available, we create two  
ports: apache20 and apache2, respectively. This works fine. What do  
you need in addition to that?