[50694] branches/images-and-archives/base/src

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 7, 2009, at 01:05, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 07:51:10AM +0200, Rainer Müller said:
>> On 2009-05-07 07:41, blb at macports.org wrote:
>>> Revision: 50694
>>>           http://trac.macports.org/changeset/50694
>>> Author:   blb at macports.org
>>> Date:     2009-05-06 22:41:19 -0700 (Wed, 06 May 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Remove source/binary only options
>>
>> I think the -b and -s options were quite useful to select if archives
>> should be used or the software should be built from source. How do  
>> you
>> think this will work in the future?
>
> The way this branch will work is that the distinction between  
> archives and
> what's installed will be gone.  In the case of -b, that option  
> won't make
> sense anymore since "installed" is having the image file (archive  
> as called
> now) available, so you just have to activate the right one.  For - 
> s, it's
> like now if you disable archive mode, just uninstall the port to  
> build from
> source.

Is there an explanation somewhere about this branch, what goals  
you're trying to accomplish, etc.? Is there a ticket or a wiki page?