Idea: Port Checks for Disk Space Before Compiling?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The major problem is that there is basically no way to predict how
>> much space an installation of a port from source might need (one might
>> be able to do some heuristics based on old build logs from the
>> buildbot or so, but that might be quite some work for very little gain
>> and it won't work well for non-default variants etc).
> 
> It would be easy for the buildbot to record the size of the installed package, even if the package isn't distributable, and could submit that information to our hypothetical new web site, from which MacPorts could query it.

This could be helpful, but it wouldn't provide information about the *maximum* disk space required by a build, which could easily surpass the size of the final build products.

vq