Merging rev-upgrade

Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org
Thu Dec 29 15:50:29 PST 2011


On Dec 29, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:

> 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?

I like it ;)


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)






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