boinc @4.11 outdated

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Sep 23 09:35:13 PDT 2007


On Sep 23, 2007, at 07:28, William Davis wrote:

> The version of boinc in MacPorts is badly outdated, and will  
> operate poorly when connected to the boinc server. In addition  
> boinc itself has an intel mac version now at 5.11.20.  The portfile  
> needs to come up to 5.11.27 or it serves no purpose.  Since an  
> intel mac version is available perhaps this port should be deleted  
> if it cant be brought up to 5.11.27.
>
> Note that this client is run as a screensaver and is therefore  
> likely to be installed and forgotten as long as the screensaver  
> part functions. The distributed computing aspect is another matter  
> and may be overlooked by end user. To avoid causing trouble to the  
> boinc *server*, something needs to be done.
>
> ticket made in trac.

This is the ticket:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12766

The port has no maintainer, so someone who cares about boinc should  
feel free to update the port.





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