[MacPorts] #52699: cmake portgroup version 1.1

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Nov 24, 2016, at 11:16 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday November 24 2016 14:45:33 MacPorts wrote:
> 
>> I’m not convinced that this should remain. Since it’s created in
>> `workpath`, it still gets trashed on `port clean`, so I don’t see how it’s
>> any more permanent than the logfile.
> 
> The important thing is that it remains as long as there has been no
> `port clean` or equivalent. And as long as that doesn't happen the
> file is infinitely more permanent than the logfile from the moment you
> repeat any port command that is part of the build sequence (and that
> isn't `port configure`, evidently).

Because the logfile gets overwitten? Okay, sure.

> And that's the only sort of "more permanent" that is being aimed at
> - should anyone want to keep the information *after* the port clean
> they can simply copy the file; copying for a file with a standard name
> is more practical than filtering the log at the appropriate time. 

I have no doubt that you find this useful, but its sole purpose is to
aid a particular portfile development style that I doubt is common. So
I don't think it merits nearly 30 lines of cmake-1.1.tcl.

vq