commit new port - transcode

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On May 17, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Chuck Remes wrote:

>
> On May 17, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>> Hi Chuck and David,
>>
>> On 17/05/2007, at 00:14, Chuck Remes wrote:
>>
>>> On May 16, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a compelling reason to use cvs HEAD for this port?
>>>
>>> Yes. The upcoming 1.1.0 release can only be accessed from HEAD.  
>>> Plus, this is the best way to make sure that, as the code reaches  
>>> release status, it doesn't break under OSX. The other maintainer  
>>> and I are keeping a close eye on things to make sure OSX remains  
>>> a solidly supported target platform. As soon as 1.1.0 is  
>>> officially released, we will update the Portfile to grab a tarball.
>>>
>>> There is an older release (1.0.3) which could potentially be  
>>> used, but it's a dead-end for support and functionality. All new  
>>> development is focused on the 1.1.x releases.
>>>
>>> In the interim, HEAD is safe. The project developers have a  
>>> policy of not breaking the build so we are (somewhat) assured the  
>>> port will function properly for folks. Again, this is temporary.
>>>
>>> Is this sufficient?
>>
>> My concern with tracking HEAD in a public portfile (which is, I  
>> believe, the primary stated reason for discouraging it) is to do  
>> with non-reproducibility of builds.  I imagine that it would be  
>> much easier to diagnose a problem if we know exactly what was in  
>> the source files via a tag, rather than having to try to find out  
>> when exactly they installed the port (particularly if it's a bug  
>> that is important but whose cause gets obfuscated by later  
>> changes, though I don't know how likely that is).
> [snip]
>
> Thanks for all the feedback. I'll take a look at introducing a date  
> tag so we can get reproducible builds. Once I get that working,  
> we'll just update the Portfile twice a month until the transcode  
> developers put out the final release. I'll privately track their  
> daily submissions to make sure they don't break OSX builds too  
> badly. :-)

I have submitted a modified Portfile using a date tag for checkout.  
It compiles cleanly on both PPC and x86, so I think we're in good shape.

Some please review and commit [1].

cr

[1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11933