new port thrift

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Some people write software ;-)
> 
> Software they could make ports for. :P

not necessarily.

I've used MacPorts to pull in dependencies for stuff I have done for $WORK where I want to build/test/profile on my Mac but eventually deploy on something else.

Unless there is some other port that needs to (or will need to) depend on the bindings being there, I don't think it makes much of a difference if they are a variant or a separate port.

>> In subversions case, it used to be that it was much more efficient to build the bindings when building subversion (but I think upstream has done a bunch to make it better), which was the original motivation to have the bindings as variants.
> 
> That may well be the case with Graphviz still. :(

binary packages will save us? ;-)
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