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

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:25:36AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> 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?

Yes, that would be #19458:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19458>

Bryan