#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 tessarek@…): Hi Larry, Thank you for your answers and your patch. Unfortunately that's not quite what I was looking for. Let me try to explain. I do understand that git builds might not be stable. I assumed that the `port list tmux` command would show the short git hash (7 chars) in the output, e.g.: {{{ tmux @23e12a7 sysutils/tmux }}} A lot of projects do not accept bug reports for release builds and require you to try and use git master before submitting a bug. This is not necessarily true for tmux, but tmux has another problem. Releases are rare and therefore I wanted to give macports users the chance to install a development version. Even, if a certain build does not work, most likely the next one will. Also, that's why I used the dev or devel variant to indicate this. We also could output a warning when using a development build. But as you explained, the Portfile has to be updated every time to pick up a certain hash or pull the latest master, so this approach is not what I intended. It seems to me the port system lacks support for this kind of use. So right now I'm not quite sure, what I should do. Any ideas? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47684#comment:4> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X