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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 12, 2015, at 4:19 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2015-11-11 00:26 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> If we start including macosx_deployment_target, macosx_sdk, prefix,
>>> applications_dir, frameworks_dir, ... we'll sooner or later end up in
>>> an exponential mess
>> 
>> These are the type of settings that are associated with an entire source
>> in archive_sites.conf, because all the archives from a given source will
>> have them set the same. If any of these settings for a source don't
>> match the ones used locally, the source is simply not used. Putting
>> cxx_stdlib in here as well would be a good fit.
> 
> Are you saying that putting
>   cxx_stdlib libc++
> inside archive_sites.conf instead of macports.conf (and possibly

Not instead of: in addition to. The setting in macports.conf specifies what C++ library will be used for software installed on your Mac with MacPorts. The hypothetical entries in archive_sites.conf would specify which C++ library the packages on a given packages server were built with.

> making some additional changes in the code) would automatically make
> sure that one would not have to write an explicit:
>   buildfromsource always
> and MacPorts would make sure that one would not fetch the binary from
> a server with binaries using different settings?
> 
> In a way that would make sense to me as well, but I don't exactly
> understand how everything works.