[MacPorts] #37688: New Port - root-devel giving a snapshot of the ROOT6 development.

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#37688: New Port - root-devel giving a snapshot of the ROOT6 development.
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  Reporter:  jonesc@…    |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  submission  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:              |   Keywords:  maintainer
      Port:  root-devel  |
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Comment (by jonesc@…):

 > I believe that once the first release of version 6 gets out there will
 hardly be any need for fetching the latest SVN version any more? But I
 still find it very important to make the first port before the release
 since the team will have time to get rid of Mac(Ports)-specific bugs and
 consequently there will be less patches needed for the official release.

 Yes, once there are official releases of root6, it will no longer be
 needed to download from svn directly, but use the tar balls. Until then,
 updating the svn revision as and when wanted is quite easy.

 > Renaming root to root5 would probably be a logical consequence of adding
 root6. But it might also make sense to look into ways of enabling parallel
 installation of both. (Or at least keeping root5 where it is and trying to
 make root6 independent by using /opt/local/share/root6 instead of
 /opt/local/share/root etc.)

 I agree that would be nice, but as with moving to cmake it involves a lot
 more work on the port file than it took to put this one together ( which
 really was just a matter of changing the fetch method and removing a few
 non-working Variants). I don't have the time to look into this now, but if
 someone else wants to again, like with cmake, be my guest. I'll help where
 I can. If you want to be a co maintainer of a root6 port, even better...

 Chris

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