Preparing for 2.6.0 beta

[Joshua Root]

On 2019-9-20 11:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Aug 24, 2019, at 23:20, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-8-25 03:00 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to set up at least one builder with 10.6 running
>>> MacPorts master, building all ports with libc++ (apparently default by
>>> now in master), just not uploading the archives to the public site, or
>>> potentially uploading them to a 10.6 subfolder? That is, instead of
>>> putting the file under
>>>    http://packages.macports.org/clang-3.4/clang-3.4-3.4.2_12.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2
>>> we would put it under
>>>    http://packages.macports.org/10.6/clang-3.4/clang-3.4-3.4.2_12.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2
>>> or something else than 10.6 (darwin10.x86_64, 10.6.x86_64, ...).
>>>
>>> That way we could at least have all the packages ready by the time
>>> when we do the switch.
>>
>> I guess that depends on how much time Ryan has to work on this.
> 
> In my opinion, it would have been a good idea to develop a plan for having the archives for libc++ on older systems at different URLs (either subdirectories or different archive filenames). That way, we could have deployed new builders to build the libc++ archives for older systems prior to the release, so that they would be available at release.
> 
> However, since Joshua decided to flip the switch for libc++ on older systems without such a plan being in place, we won't have archives for libc++ on older systems available at release of 2.6.0, and users will just have to wait for the builds to finish or build things themselves.

There's been over a year since the 2.5 release to develop that plan.
Nobody did it. The transition needs to happen.

But if we really want to back out the stdlib change, there's still time.

- Josh