Merging rev-upgrade

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Thu Dec 29 15:37:10 PST 2011


Hi,

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote:
> I've been running my GSoC project rev-upgrade on my "productive"
> MacPorts installation since I've finished it in August and haven't had
> any problems with it, so I think it might be ready to be merged into
> trunk.
>
> […]
> 
> Feel free to test rev-upgrade by checking out my branch[1] and
> installing it over your current MacPorts. I'm keeping the branch in sync
> with trunk's base by regularly merging from trunk. Switching back from
> rev-upgrade to trunk should work aswell, however, that has not been
> tested. Opening the registry database with my branch for the first time
> upgrades the database version and adds a couple of fields, so you might
> want to keep a backup of your registry.db.
>
> […]
> 
> [1] https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/gsoc11-rev-upgrade/base/

Has anybody else tested rev-upgrade and has comments, ideas and/or bugs?
Should I just go ahead and merge into trunk to get a larger user base
and fix remaining bugs there?

-- 
Clemens Lang
GSoC Student



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