[MacPorts] #44015: sumo @0.21.0 New version available

[Thomas Lockhart]

On 6/18/14 11:24 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Thomas Lockhart 
> <tlockhart1976 at gmail.com <mailto:tlockhart1976 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     btw, the SUMO developers recommend using the head of the repo for
>     all work with SUMO, so they have some confidence that this
>     sumo-devel port would be a reasonable choice when using SUMO.
>
>
> The notion of repeatable builds means we only work from tags, not 
> HEAD. (Of course, the notion of repeatable builds seems to go over 
> some developers' heads, since apparently maintaining actual installs 
> is not their problem --- what, everyone doesn't simply rewrite entire 
> application stacks when $component gets updated in an incompatible way?!)
I thought that might be the case. I would then recommend that sumo-devel 
be retired, since having it be ancient does not seem helpful and taking 
on frequent (daily?) updates seems like too much work for everyone.

If someone wants the freshest (and most mutable) code, build from source.

                                - Tom
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