Archives and Packages (was Re: Universal and binary builds)
Anders F Björklund
afb at macports.org
Tue Mar 31 00:04:28 PDT 2009
Joshua Root:
>> But then it went from there (we're busy), to "MacPorts is a source
>> distribution".
>
> "MacPorts is a source distribution" is merely a statement of fact, not
> of policy, as far as portmgr is concerned.
Okay, I heard more like "we don't need no steenking packages"...
So sticking with the archives seemed like a reasonable approach.
> My personal response is, "Yes, we know that binaries would be a great
> feature to have. Now can we stop talking about it and write code?" :-)
>
> Because in the end, this feature request, like every other, is waiting
> on a volunteer to produce a patch.
So you want the dp_light branch updated ? Or a patch for xpkg ?
Or should we talk about which code we are about to patch ? ;-)
--anders
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