The road to MacPorts 1.8.0

[Ryan Schmidt]

It's been awhile since 1.7.1 was released, and I've seen many changes  
go into trunk already since then. What still stands in the way of  
releasing 1.8.0?

I believe there was a change which now prevents explicitly selecting  
automatic variants, which was going to be a problem for the fetch  
code the distfiles mirror runs to make sure it fetches the distfiles  
necessary for every variant. Can that be fixed somehow?

I know the GSoC '08 privilege escalation stuff was merged in awhile  
ago, and I saw Josh commit some follow-ups recently. Is that all  
working now?

Do we know of anything broken in trunk at the moment?

How are we with Snow Leopard support? Anything still outstanding? I  
understand Snow Leopard builds things 64-bit by default now instead  
of 32-bit. I'm really not sure what we should be doing about this.

There was a comment that the default universal_archs should be  
changed from "ppc i386" to "i386 x86_64". Presumably this would only  
be done on Intel Macs, and PPC Macs would get "ppc ppc64". Or maybe  
we would make it "i386 x86_64" only on Snow Leopard, since that OS is  
Intel-only, and keep "ppc i386" for Tiger and Leopard.