Running unreleased MacPorts

[Joshua Root]

Ian Grant wrote:
> Dear List
> 
> Is there a way to upgrade my macports installation to the currently unreleased revision?

Sure, see <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/RunningTrunk>.

> I guess I would need to check out the revision from SVN and build from source. Is there a way to run an unreleased tree in parallel with a working 1.7.0 tree?

To have multiple MP installs, you need each one to be built with
different --prefix and --with-tclpackage arguments to configure.

- Josh