MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 15, 2012, at 12:55, Craig Treleaven wrote:

> In the NEWS, I noticed a couple of points:
> 
>> == Overview of changes from MacPorts 2.0.4 to 2.1.0 ==
>> <snip>
>> *) The pkg and mpkg targets will create flat packages on 10.6+.
>> 
>> <snip>
>> *) Multiple ports can now be defined in one Portfile using the 'subport'
>>   procedure.
>> 
>> *) New option 'add_users' can be set to ensure that the listed users are
>>   created at the right times during the install process.
>> 
> 
> Being a neophyte Portfile author, is there more documentation of the above features?  ( mpkg, subports, add_users.)  I looked up the revisions to pkg/mpkg, for example, but I don't read TCL well enough to really understand.  Even a pointer to a message thread would help.

subports have been around for awhile already and many ports and several portgroups use them. Grep the ports tree for "subport" and take your pick and read it and see how it works.