why cvs port left on stable

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-11-7 11:19 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 13:30, Frank Schima wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>
>>>   I am wondering why MacPorts has left their cvs port on the stable 1.11.23 release rather
>>> than upgrading it to the feature 1.12.13 release and using the patches from Apple's cvs-45
>>> release in Xcode 4.6...
>>>
>>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/cvs/cvs-45/
>>>
>>> Is there some reason this port is not being sync'd to Apple's last cvs release (since
>>> that is now deprecated out of Mac OS X with Xcode 5)?
>>
>> $ port info --maintainers cvs
>> maintainers: nomaintainer at macports.org
>>
>> Because the port has no maintainer and there are no update tickets filed against it. 
> 
> Also because we typically use stable versions of software in MacPorts, unless there’s a good reason not to. (And there may be a good reason here; I’m not sure.)

1.12.13 appears to be from 2005 and 1.11.23 from 2008, so that's
probably also a factor.

- Josh