Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 11, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> I think the order of operations would be:
> 
> - Figure out a way to have libstdc++ and libc++ archives coexist on the packages server by either modifying the archive filename or by setting up a second packages server (or subdirectory of the existing server, which would be simpler for mirrors)
> - Get new buildbot slaves to build libc++ archives, which will get us build reports about what's broken so that we can fix it
> - Some developers or user switch to libc++ and test more
> - Develop a strategy for how to migrate libstdc++ users to libc++
> - Make libc++ the default and transition users to it
> 
> There might be users who want to stay with libstdc++ because they use MacPorts-built libraries for purposes outside of MacPorts. They could do that by deliberately setting cxx_stdlib to libstdc++ in macports.conf. No default value is present for it, so users who haven't specified it would get upgraded to our new default.
> 
> I guess most users just want to use ports installed by MacPorts, and would be well served by MacPorts switching to libc++, since more and more ports are unable to build with libstdc++.

... and by the time this is done - how many people will be running those old systems (which aren't getting security updates anymore)?

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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