Re: Toward a MacPorts port that tracks 0.7.9

Thank you to Anton for clarifying the development roadmap. Craig: I do not
want to upset your existing work, on which I rely to build the development
versions.

In my experience, linux distributions and MacPorts tend to track version
(0.7.3_3). My idea is to facilitate tracking the development snapshots, so
that new features can be tried.

I recognise that there are flatpak and snap distributions for Fedora,
Ubuntu and homebrew for the Mac, so I wondered what it would take to create
a portfile. Crucial to that idea is being able to build the latest tarball,
so I recorded my experiences.

Is everyone happy for me to continue on this path for the moment? (I have a
lot to learn about how MacPorts works and whether building on a client
machine is a viable approach, so I am uncertain as how this idea will turn
out.)

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 06:49, Anton Ertl <anton-eMTcDWn+JWX/RkxMZTRrOJdqbFPxfnh/@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 09:10:53PM -0500, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> > What is this =E2=80=9C0.7.9=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9Crelease"?
>
> 0.7.9-$DATE are development snapshots leading up to the next release,
> which will be gforth-1.0.
>
> - anton
>