running macports along with homebrew

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 5, 2018, at 05:43, db wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2018, at 11:39, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> hash+date is specific, predictable, repeatable. The portfile developer tests a specific hash+date, and when satisfied, commits it to make it available to MacPorts users.
> 
> As I said in my previous post, you can get HEAD's hash with 'git ls-remote --heads'. And store it somewhere.

Who are you suggesting should run this command and when? The port maintainer? The user trying to install the port? MacPorts itself?

> Devel ports that use hash+date only add the date, and I doubt they are much tested.

As with any other port, at minimum, whoever committed the update should have tested that it builds on their version of macOS before committing.

> But hey, I'm glad Ken found this and I can use it locally at least.

I'm not disputing that it is technically possible to write a Portfile today that fetches the HEAD of a repository. I'm explaining the problems that arise if you do that, and why it is therefore our policy not to permit ports that do that to be introduced into the ports collection.