MacPorts 1.7.1

[C. Florian Ebeling]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:01 PM, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Has anyone been running the 1.7 branch? Found any problems with it? Should
>> we release MacPorts 1.7.1 soonish? It's been two months since 1.7.0. You
>> know what they say: release early, release often!
>>
>>    - Make dependencies in port upgrade respect variants as specified
>>      (in order of precedence) on command line, latest installed
>>      version, or variants.conf .  (#8221, gwhitney)
>>
> I'd like to make a strong pitch to add this one as without it it is
> impossible to correctly upgrade custom MacPorts installations that depend on
> on global variants such as +no_x11 or +system_x11.  Without being able to
> upgrade, the global variants are next to useless.

Another option is to not create a teeny release and go straight to
1.8, isn't it? Then it would not matter as much if output changes.

At least I'd like to +1 David here, but the other additions sound
also very good.



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