[GSoC-2010] The Autobuild idea

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-3-12 02:43 , Pratul Kalia wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I saw Macports is applying to Summer of Code 2010 as a mentoring
> organization. Considering Google does shortlist it, I will be very
> interested in working and hacking on the project. I haven't worked
> with Tcl before, but I've used Macports solely as my package manager
> on OS X for around 2 years now (and I'm working through the Tcl
> documentation now)
> 
> Going through the ideas list, I saw the Autobuild idea, which was
> built on further from Darwin Autobuild. The system comes across as
> what perhaps an organization might use if they use a lot of Mac FOSS
> stuff. Then they'd have a local binary repository, which would
> certainly speed things up.  Am I right in thinking this way?
> 
> On an alternate note, has ports ever thought of a binary distribution
> system too? (like apt).

Yes, that's one of the things MPAB is for. The other is automated
detection and reporting of ports that fail to build.

- Josh