MacPorts hosted mdmg [eom]

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 14, 2015, at 6:44 AM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ----- On 14 Mar, 2015, at 02:04, Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org wrote:
> 
>> Has there been a discussion about having the MacPorts buildbots also build mdmg
>> files?
>> 
>> This may require a lot of resources so perhaps mdmg could be run for some
>> percentage of requested ports using mpstats?
> 
> What would be your use case for that? If you are looking for packages you can
> install without installing MacPorts,

Yes.

> I'd argue it's a bad idea to have our
> buildbots generate those, because of the prefix conflict.

And I'd agree though there are groups of consumers (sciences) that would likely never install MacPorts if they could use installers.

This is not the best use of MacPorts resources. I quash my idea.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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