Archives and Packages (was Re: Universal and binary builds)

[Anders F Björklund]

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