MacPorts 1.7.1

[Rainer Müller]

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!

Yes, that's exactly what I thought as I brought the pathing discussion
to the list again. The milestone 1.7.1 [1] has only 4 open tickets left.

> We could merge in these additional small changes that are on trunk:
> 
> 
>      - Add new "use_7z yes" port option to allow distfiles in 7z format
>        (#18521, ryandesign)
> 
>      - port lint no longer requires variable master_sites if the port  
> has no
>        distfiles (#18479, ryandesign)
> 
>      - Upgrade will no longer accept ports that are not installed  
> (but it still
>        installs new ports as dependencies if needed). In particular,  
> this means
>        that "port upgrade all" will no longer proceed to install every
>        available port. (jmr in r46052)

I would be fine with merging these three above.

>      - Add mkdtemp Tcl command to create temporary directories.  
> (#17181, perry)

Is there anything using this? This is base internal code, so I don't
think it is reasonable to merge this without merging code which uses it.

> These are the remaining changes on trunk that are described in the  
> ChangeLog; not sure whether should merge these. In particular I would  
> like to not merge changes that significantly change the output of a  
> port command (like #11891).
> [...]

Most of these are new features and the like. Do not merge them.

> There are probably also other changes on trunk that are not described  
> in the ChangeLog.

Anything that has changed and was not added to the ChangeLog is usually
not worth for merging.

Rainer

[1]
http://trac.macports.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=MacPorts+1.7.1