Let's talk about +debug

[Blair Zajac]

On 04/19/2012 10:16 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2012-4-20 02:40 , Sean Farley wrote:
>> I'd like to discuss /review the latest patch here:
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33821
>>
>> As I point out in the ticket, it is extremely useful to retain
>> debugging symbols for libraries (optionally set with +debug). My
>> co-workers and I have been using this for about two years now with no
>> problems whatsoever and we'd like to see it in the core of macports.
>> Thoughts?
>
> I don't doubt this is useful to you, but I really don't want to have to
> support it. It's inevitably not going to work right in some cases, and
> when you provide a variant people understandably expect it to work. The
> target audience is also comparatively small.
>
> At this point I'd probably rather not accept it at all, and just let you
> continue to provide it as a third party patch. If we did decide to
> include it, I'd at least want it off by default with a config knob for
> those who know they need it.

When you're debugging something, having debugging symbols available in 
the package management system is very handy, so I'm +1 for having this 
feature.

Blair