1.7.0 release candidate 1 available for testing

[Joshua Root]

Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:31:53AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 03:44, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> [...]
>>> [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
> 
> I chose putting it in /users since it's not a final release, so I don't want
> anyone seeing 1.7.0 under downloads and thinking otherwise; also, I've heard
> MacUpdate has an automated method for detecting new versions and I don't
> want it to pick up a release candidate and show it as the current version.
> 
> Note that from what I've found, DMGs have only been offered for final
> releases in the past, so we have no policy about this.  So I would say now
> is a good time to create one.

Putting the non-final versions in a testing/ subdir should sufficiently
distinguish them, I think.

- Josh