MacPorts 1.7.1 milestone created

[Joshua Root]

Rainer Müller wrote:
> 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.

I'd say it's high time this was merged back into trunk. I'm sure I'm not
the only one who doesn't have a separate install for testing the branch. :-)

- Josh