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

[Joshua Root]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 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.

I do think archives should be the short-term goal. The true binary
distro utopia Jordan describes will naturally be a lot more work.

>> 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 ? ;-)

I figure resurrecting the patch in #8571 would be a good start. Then
grab archives from MPAB and make them available, and see where things go
from there.

- Josh