Is it time to start regression testing yet?

C. Florian Ebeling florian.ebeling at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 02:13:09 PDT 2009


> Looks great to me. Some feature requests, from an MacPorts user perspective.
>
> When I'm considering using MacPorts to help me out with a build, I need to
> know whether it's going to succeed. The first thing I want to do is search
> for a specific port to see whether it will build. So these might be useful:
>
> 1. Sort the list alphabetically.
> 2. Instead of numbering the pages of results, give an alphabetical index.
> 3. Include a search facility - perhaps it could call "port search", so that
> I don't need to know the exact port name.
> 4. Include a category column, to help me find relevant ports. That might
> help me to find the port even if I've got the name wrong, or it might help
> me find an alternative solution.

All those are on my internal list already :)

Florian


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