MacPorts 2.0.0-rc1 now available for testing

[Joshua Root]

Developers with access to Lion seeds should install from source. A dmg
for Lion will be made available after Lion is released.

- Josh

On 2011-7-19, Dominik Reichardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is recommended for Lion? I'm switched through the developer program and the previously installed ports work fine but "port upgrade outdated" doesn't work fine. Didn't expect it to, I know I need to rebuild anyway. Just thought I'd wait for MacPorts 2.0, especially since there isn't a designated Lion download.
> So is it recommended to switch via the SL build of MacPorts 2.0 rc1 or wait a bit longer (which isn't a problem right now)?
> 
> Take care
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
>> Source code and disk images for MacPorts 2.0.0-rc1 are now
>> available [1]. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.
>>
>> While there are no known regressions from 1.9.2 at this point, be
>> prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be
>> wise. Please report any bugs that you find [2] (after first searching
>> Trac [3], of course!)
>>
>> If no showstopping bugs are found in the next few days, this will become
>> the 2.0.0 release.
>>
>> There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog
>> [4] for a list of most of them. You may like to focus your testing on
>> the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.
>>
>> Notable changes since beta3 are:
>> * The installer's check for the existence of the 'macports' group now
>>   works correctly on 10.5. (#30096)
>> * It's again possible to clean just the directories in ~/.macports by
>>   running 'port clean' without privileges.
>> * A few issues with fetching archives have been fixed.
>