Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

[Rainer Müller]

Guido Soranzio wrote:
> We are in serious need of:
> 
> 1. An open repository where to exchange precompiled archives in
>    order to avoid the lengthy compilations of the dependencies.

Which requires 2.

> 2. A buildbot on a central server which automatically builds
>    and tests the proposed portfiles in a chroot'ed environment.

This would require the LoggingProposal [1] to be implemented first.

> 3. A "testing" branch for the beta-testers who would like to help
>    transitioning to development releases without breaking
>    the main trunk (i.e. Gnome 2.22, Python 3.0, KDE 4.0, ...).

We discussed this before and voted against it. We already have the
*-devel ports. What we really need would be a better dependency engine
which can handle alternatives and versions. Also, multiple versions of a
port would be good.

There is of course much to do with MacPorts, but we are still lacking a
roadmap...

Rainer

[1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/LoggingProposal