Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

[Guido Soranzio]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Sure, but it doesn't integrate with MacPorts and installs outside the
> registry. So it will rather screw up your existing installation.


Let's talk on more practical terms.

On trunk several pieces of Gnome 2.22 have been already committed
sparsely without coordination: almost a nightmare.

Let's suppose that someone (me!) is busy building Gnome again from
scratch and he is offering his archives/packages to the others in
order to save humanly the battery life of their portable: why
shouldn't you trust him (me!)?

Currently MacPorts doesn't offer OpenOffice, nor Mono, nor KDE 4,
nor X.org, nor Java 6: how can we afford to accomplish these valuable
porting efforts if every committer/submitter is building again
and again his personal tree? FreeBSD has them thanks to dedicated
teams and a building cluster: that's the way to go.

It's really sad that we are hosted in the same "community"
infrastructure of WebKit and of his buildbots but you have to
spend hours to recompile it yourself in order to test the latest
new Gnome application which makes use of WebKit's latest daily
features.

Ever heard of MacRuby? Yes, it is here on Mac OS Forge.


-Guido