why cvs port left on stable

[Jack Howarth]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:29:53AM +1100, Joshua Root wrote:
> 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

I would note that Apple has distributed cvs built from 1.12.13 since Xcode 3.0.
            Jack