[MacPorts] #16733: Tidy Update Request

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#16733: Tidy Update Request
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 Reporter:  william.dinoia@…        |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal                  |   Milestone:  Port Updates           
Component:  ports                   |     Version:  1.6.0                  
 Keywords:  tidy update request     |        Port:  tidy                   
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Comment(by sierkb@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 ryandesign@…]:
 > Actually it looks like they're not assigning version numbers or more
 importantly tags in CVS.

 Since the system for automatically providing source and binary packages on
 http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ is broken, the Tidy/TidyLib project does NOT
 have an official versioning scheme, so the CVS HEAD version is always the
 latest stable available version. The official "version number" of
 tidy/tidylib is in tidy/src/version.h and is allways a date (currently the
 string "7 December 2008") -- the date, when the latest change has been
 made to the tidylib itself. That does NOT cover other changes, that could
 have been made in the meantime to other source files belonging to tidy
 resp. tidylib. These possibly other changes to other source files are only
 covered, if you make a CVS HEAD checkout.

 > That means we cannot pull from CVS and reliably get the same build each
 time.

 Maybe you can stick to one specific version stamp, meaning the date string
 of /tidy/src/version.h and search for it, while checking out from CVS (if
 this is a possible way to go).

 > We will have to make our own source packages and host them at MacPorts.

 Maybe that is the one and only possibility to be up-to-date. And regulary
 update tidy on MacPorts by pulling the latest CVS HEAD update from the
 tidy trunk. Others, like some Linux distributors, do so as well.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16733#comment:5>
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