what's the plan for mac os x lion

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jul 4, 2011, at 09:00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

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> On Jul 4, 2011, at 5:27 AM, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
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>> mac os x lion is already in GM state. Are macports ready for it ? i installed macports from source (trunk) , but lot's of package failed to build. but not reporting it on trac as i saw one ticket was closed with "we are not giving support for lion" (something like this).
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>> now my question, is macports ready for LION ? or is any development going on for lion. i checked the macports 2 (beta) download list, but there is no version for lion yet.
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> A lot of us have been using MacPorts on Lion for awhile (developer previews, Apple engineers with direct access, etc) and I haven't personally had any "it's all broken!" experiences, so if there is a specific port that's broken, please file a trac ticket.   I don't know what trac ticket you're referring to, but it may have been simply closed because nobody wanted to violate an NDA by committing lion-specific fixes.  That will remain the case until Lion actually ships to customers, so just hang tight and file tickets would be my recommendation.  I doubt that any tickets will be closed as "too lion specific" at this point,

Just to add my two cents,

All of the ports that are in my install-set (including many multimedia ports, x11, firefox, gnome, with most bloat variants set) have been working with trunk/base using llvm-gcc-4.2 on SL and Lion for a while now (trunk/base now chooses the compiler based on devtools version rather than os version).  I'm still holding on to a couple NDA-squimish patches in leaf projects that I'll push after the actual release, but it mostly works out of the box.

If you are uncertain if filing your bug would violate your NDA, please feel free to email me directly.

--Jeremy