preparing for a new release

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jun 14 00:17:01 PDT 2011


It would probably be best to try to work with any committers who may
also be NDA'd.

Java could also be made a variant for a number of ports, and could be on
by default only on platforms that we know have Java as part of their
standard install.

- Josh

On 2011-6-14 12:29 , Savory Michael wrote:
> So if someone was running a trunk copy of Macports on a certain NDA cat and saw that something common like Cairo wasn't building platform='darwin 11' archs='x86_64' then how should we report it?
> 
> Also the Guide need updating to mention that Java is an explicit install requirement for a number of ports, as well as explaining explicitly which XCode is supported.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> I'm thinking we should aim to do a release roughly concurrent with Lion.
>> Most of the tickets in the 2.0.0 milestone are closed already, and none
>> of the remaining ones looks too disruptive, so if nobody objects, I'll
>> make the branch and do a first beta release in a couple of days.


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