dmg/mdmg (Was Re: removal suggestion: port rpm)

[Jeremy Lavergne]

The big selling point on getting rid of dmg/mdmg is they're no longer necessary since we have flat file pkg installers now. However, Leopard still uses them (due to default of non-flat pkg).

Base will default to non-flat installers below 10.6 still. Under src/package1.0:54:
default package.flat     {[expr [vercmp $macosx_deployment_target 10.6] >= 0]}

If we can figure out why that is, then we can fix them on Leopard and axe dmg/mdmg.

On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:

>> PS. Can we get rid of the dmg and mdmg as well, while house-cleaning?
>> Those are only needed for the (unsupported) Tiger, without the "flat"
> 
> Are those really unused? I thought some projects are using those to
> build re-distributable packages of software built using MacPorts; should
> we suggest using .pkg instead?