1.7.0 release candidate 1 available for testing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 03:44, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> I've created a tag for the first release candidate for 1.7.0 [1];  
> most of
> the changes from beta1 involve the script which updates  
> sources.conf to
> include a [default] tag for the default MacPorts repository.
>
> Two code changes were made: one to better set configure.* variables  
> to sane
> default values even if the configure phase is overridden (#17426),  
> and the
> other to fix use_lzma support (#16788).
>
> The rest of the changes involve building a DMG for distribution so  
> should
> have only affected me (and maybe Anders)...
>
> You can either checkout the code from [1] via svn, or if you're not  
> in the
> mood, I've put both the source tarball and DMGs for 10.3-10.5 in my  
> svn
> homedir [2].
>
> Bryan
>
> [1] - <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/ 
> release_1_7_0-rc1>
> [2] - <http://trac.macports.org/browser/users/blb>

Thanks for taking the initiative with the 1.7.0 release here.


Is there a reason we don't put the 1.7.0-rc1 files in the regular  
downloads directory?

http://trac.macports.org/browser/downloads