Dependency on developer tools

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 15:00, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> You just saddened me as I run multiple PPC servers :)
>
> I understand, and I am on your side. I want to support older  
> systems. But we appear to be in the minority.

so support them ... no one is stopping you (or anyone) from testing  
and generating patches for port maintainers...

If there are people interested in it, they are the best ones to make  
it happen.

> I also once suggested that MacPorts should send stats about what got  
> installed up to our server so we can tell what ports are popular,  
> and also what kinds of systems people are running them on. But this  
> was seen as "phoning home" and an invasion of privacy. It could be  
> an opt-in feature, but I thought this would make it less useful.

Maybe it would be less useful, but it would be something to start with  
(and as opt-in it would hopefully avoid irritating users who for  
whatever reason did not want to share information about their setup).

If we made archives a priority we could just track download stats for  
the pre-build archives ;-)

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