MacPorts 2.1.0 or 2.0.5

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Apr 4 15:08:43 PDT 2012


On 2012-4-4 19:39 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> rev-upgrade could still be improved to get faster in the step scanning
> for binary files. It currently does lot of I/O walking through files
> although this could be done in the activation phase where we know which
> files are being installed.
> 
> However, such improvements could also be moved to 2.2.0 to avoid any
> delays for 2.1.0. I think the speed of the post-install/post-upgrade is
> good enough for now.

There's always the option of shipping with automatic rev-upgrade turned
off by default, so users would have to explicitly turn it on in the conf
or run 'port rev-upgrade' manually.

However, I don't think it's bad enough to warrant that.

- Josh


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