MacPorts 1.5.0 released

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Evening everyone!

	I am glad to announce that we've finally finished the 1.5.0 edition  
of MacPorts, readily available through all our regular distribution  
means:

-) binary installer for both 10.4 (Universal) and 10.3, http:// 
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.5.0/
-) source tarballs, both gz and bz2 formats, same location as above;
-) selfupdate.

	Of all the features and bug fixes in the changelog quoted below, I'd  
like to point out two in particular:

1) The MacPorts project no longer mixes its old DarwinPorts name with  
the new one at any level, whether that is in chosen installation  
paths, file names, strings we output to the user and many more  
things. This implies that upon installing 1.5.0 several things in a  
standard MacPorts installation will silently change to new naming and  
installation locations, as thoroughly detailed in the Wiki page that  
tracked this work as it was being developed: http://trac.macports.org/ 
projects/macports/wiki/MacPortsRenaming. Please read it carefully  
before getting scared about your configuration files or other stuff  
being missing ;-)

2) Even though still not complete, extensive work on the generation  
of rpm's off MacPorts Portfiles has pushed forward our ability to  
generate real binary packages, improving both the building of the rpm  
tool itself on Mac OS X and the "rpm" MacPorts target (renamed from  
"rpmpackage") that creates the corresponding rpm files/packages.  
These packages still need to be generated by users off their own  
MacPorts installations ("port rpm <port>"), and flawless  
functionality for each of them is still not guaranteed,  
unfortunately. For instance, one long standing shortcoming still with  
us is that rpm installed software (even if the package is generated  
through MacPorts) is separate from MacPorts installed software, they  
are still two different universes that don't talk to each other even  
if installed into the same /opt/local prefix. However, strong  
developer momentum on the packaging front raises our hope that the  
goal of providing fully working and ironed out binary packages will  
be reached eventually!

	So, without much further ado, enjoy MacPorts 1.5.0! Biggest thanks  
to all those who worked to produce this solid release, kudos!

	Regards,...


-jmpp

PS: Full 1.5.0 ChangeLog following:


Release 1.5 (09-July-2007 tagged at r26818 by jmpp):

     - Many documentation updates and improvements, mostly thanks to  
Maun Suang and Brian
       Campbell who both started work on both improving our man pages  
and reviving the
       long forgotten MacPorts official guide, now nightly regen'd on  
an automated basis
       and hosted at a temporary location, http://geeklair.net/ 
macports_guide/, all
       thanks to Daniel J. Luke (dluke).

     - Improve built-in "daemondo" program logging (jberry r26537 &  
r26569).

     - rpm target now knows how to also build universal packages if  
requested (afb r26470).

     - The "rpmpackage" target was renamed to "rpm", and a new target  
"srpm" added
       that allows packaging a Portfile (and files/distfiles) up as a  
source package.
       Upgraded RPM to version 4.4.9 and changed OpenDarwin/ 
DarwinPorts to MacPorts.
       The default build location is now ${prefix}/src/macports  
instead of ${prefix}/src/apple
       (jmpp & afb in r26465, r26496, r26536, r26543).

     - Fixed a potential crasher in the delete command (ticket  
#12149, eridius r26397).

     - 'port delete --work' now removes $portbuiltpath instead of  
$workpath, effectively prunning
       empty dirs that up until now were left behind in the build  
directory (jmpp r26394).

     - gnustep portgroup for gnustep-make-2.0 (yves r26266).

     - Adding backwards compatibility glue for clients of the public  
(darwin|mac)ports1.0 API
       that use now deprecated procs naming (DarwinPorts namespace)  
(jmpp r26392).

     - Merged the dp2mp-move branch into trunk to finally move away  
from all
       DarwinPorts related strings and conventions both internally  
and externally,
       implying big changes in MacPorts pathnames with respect to  
user visible stuff.
       Read http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
MacPortsRenaming and
       http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/log/branches/dp2mp- 
move/base for
       more full details and information (jmpp r26177).

     - Fix livecheck to properly de-escape livecheck.url (eridius  
r26041).

     - Add warning when it looks like PortIndex file is corrupt  
(eridius r26040).

     - Make portindex use stderr for errors (eridius r26038, ticket  
#11585).

     - Fix port variants calculation to properly account for negated  
variants and
       to detect problems between required and negated variants
       (ticket #11920, eridius r26036, patch by gwhitney).

     - Add global methods lpush, lpop, lshift, and lunshift. Works  
similar to
       lappend (in fact lpush is just lappend) and do what they sound  
like.
       Also add ldindex. Works like lindex, but deletes the element  
from the list.
       Documented in portfile.7 (eridius r26034).

     - Add global methods try and throw. Implemented based on the  
specification
       in TIP #89. Documented in portfile.7 (eridius r25979).

     - Handle encodings properly now. All Portfiles and .conf files  
are assumed
       to be utf-8, and reading them or calling portindex(1) should  
now work
       the same on all locales (ticket #11978, eridius r25975).

     - Add support for decoding of obscured maintainer addresses.
       We support two types of obscured addresses in Portfile  
maintainers field:
          (1) username ==> implies username at macports.org
          (2) subdomain.tld:username ==> implies username at subdomain.tld
       These are unobscured by port info, and by port submit during  
the submission process,
       but are left obscured in the Portfile to avoid accidental  
disclosure.
       (jberry r25795).

     - Update port.1 to reflect what "port dependents" really does  
(markd r25787, ticket #11898).

     - Distinguish a pseudo portname that evaluates to nothing from  
no arguments at all,
       improving behavior of 'installed', 'active', 'list', and  
'search' pseudo portnames.
       (jberry in r25789, ticket #10674).

     - Bugfix startup item generation so that launchd.plists are  
disabled
       by default, as we claim they are in our documentation. (jberry  
r25785).

     - Update adduser/addgroup to use dscl instead of niutil. Also  
add support
       for realname key in addgroup (ticket #11012, eridius r25586).

     - Make a correction to port(1)'s determination of whether or not  
a port has
       been updated by making it compare ${version} and then $ 
{revision} rather
       than a single comparison of the compound ${version}_$ 
{revision}; the
       latter reports 2.01_2 to be newer than 2.01.01a25_0 because,  
at the fifth
       character, `_' comes after `.' in ASCII lexicographic order.
       (boeyms in r25310)