MacPorts 1.7.1 milestone created

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Wed Nov 26 15:26:40 PST 2008


Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 06:05:54PM +0100, Rainer Müller said:
>> Last thing we have not decided on is how to name the resources
>> directory. I wanted to use .resources to make a clear difference to port
>> categories and to prevent portindex recursing there, but there was a
>> concern about using hidden directories. So I would be fine with using
>> _resources and let portindex ignore directories starting with an underscore.
> 
> I don't see any problem with .resources, these are all files which are
> included by port when needed (mirror_sites and the various port groups).
> Most people aren't messing around with them so visibility isn't that big a
> deal, and we don't have to add code to portindex/mporttraverse/ReaddirCmd()
> to skip it.

I just did a check and portindex actually does parse directories
starting with a dot. So it does not matter if we name it .resources or
_resources. Also, as long as we do not have any "Portfile" in resources,
we could also delay changes to portindex/mporttraverse to 1.7.1.

Rainer


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