Re: 1.3.2 the grand finale?

On 8/29/06, Joe Auty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Why would a name change break the ports? I don't get it.
>
> If this concerns you, don't do a selfupdate for a while?
>
> Sorry if this sounds insulting, I just don't exactly understand the
> motivation here. Therefore, it's hard to suggest a solution to a
> problem I don't understand =)



Hi Joe. No worries it doesn't sound insulting. I may have asked a rather
unintelligent question. My first thought was a namespace conflict (since
domain names and names in general will change from "darwinports" to
"macports") and I was wondering if I later needed to perform a selfupdate,
could that cause some sort of problem in the future. Thanks for your
tolerance if my question was not framed too well.

Thanks also to the others who replied. I don't understand Darwin / Mac Ports
as deeply as some, but I will do my best to contribute with bug testing and
reporting, etc.

Best regards,

T.


On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
> > For the core maintainers of Darwin Ports, I am wondering if version
> > 1.3.2 is
> > likely to be the grand finale before everything changes over to
> > "MacPorts"
> > completely, with a subversion based repository?
> >
> > I would like to build a bunch of Darwin Ports from 1.3.2 on both
> > PPC and
> > Intel Macs (each on HFSX disc volumes thank you Jordan Hubbard!)
> > and am
> > wondering if I should grab as many possible ports from 1.3.2 (even
> > if I
> > deactivate them) as possible since this might be the grand finale
> > for DP
> > before the MP change?
> >
> > Or, what would happen if I have a set of ports in the dependency
> > chain of
> > ports based on 1.3.2 today and three months from now I want to tack
> > on a new
> > port or an updated port. How difficult (if not impossible with MP)
> > will that
> > be? Is there anyway to predict what might happen half a year from
> > now based
> > on such a scenario in this very dynamic world we live, full of
> > changes and
> > chaos at times?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > T.
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