#47684: tmux @2.0_0: create tmux-devel subport --------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: tessarek@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.3 Resolution: | Keywords: haspatch Port: tmux | --------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): You’re correct; MacPorts is designed around reproducible builds and explicit port updates. Tip-of-branch ports are only possible through inconvenient workarounds, and we frown on the idea from a policy standpoint. Your best course of action depends on what your actual goal is. - '''Providing users with a development version:''' A complementary `*-devel` port is our standard way of doing this (see `port echo '*-devel'` for a list), and it works well if the maintainer provide regular updates. You’d have to open a new Trac ticket each time, but small, obvious patches are often pushed quickly. - '''Doing actual tmux development:''' A `tmux-devel` port would work fine for this, although you’d have to track ToT manually. If that sounds onerous to you, you might be better off doing your development outside of MacPorts. MacPorts is first and foremost a software management and distribution system, and only secondarily a development tool. These roles sometimes conflict, as they do here. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47684#comment:5> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X