Defining Roadmaps

What are the next steps required until the next MacPorts release(s)?

After a lengty discussion, we identified the following work mode to track base tickets and where they are being released:

• Base tickets are usually created without milestones.
• When closing a ticket when a fix is pushed to master, set the "MacPorts Future" milestone to indicate that is now fixed on master.
• If the fix should be backported to a release branch, set the needs-backport keyword.
• When backporting to a release branch, set the ticket's milestone to the milestone for the next bugfix release.
• If there are milestones missing, file a ticket against the trac component and request them.

Release Planning

MacPorts 2.4.3

We identified a need for a bugfix release from the 2.4.x branch, because trace mode is currently broken in 2.4.2 on High Sierra. The ticket for that is #55575. There was an email from Ryan a while ago that requested backporting a number of fixes as well. We created #56018 to track this.

#34619

prevent use of unknown subports

#50469

Git clone fails - SSL certificate problem: Couldn't understand the server certificate format

#52218

make test: Error: no mirror had select-0.1.tar.gz for gcc_select

#55492

move: case-only renames fail when no arguments are given

#55560

Failed to locate 'lbzip2' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?

#55575

port -vst install fails with "/usr/bin/tar: No such file or directory"

#56018

Backport bugfixes to release-2.4 for next release

MacPorts 2.5.0

There are a number of features that we want to get done before the next major version release. We mostly picked branches with some code that don't need a lot of work to merged into master and simple tickets for this milestone. We did not want to set any far-reached goals for 2.5.0.

#22471

Debugging options for startupitems (launchd / daemondo)

#23677

Deactivating a port should automatically unload daemons

#31798

Installation from binary package does not notify user of need to start launch item

#36560

Use hfsCompression

#36770

Need for a fix regarding mechanism for startupitem handling

#40074

Add macports.conf setting controlling startupitem.autostart

#44295

support more than one launchd plist

#44496

startupitem_install not respected when installing from binary archive

#44497

Change port load to use MacPorts plists directly

#46807

base: allow dots (.) in variant names

#52445

portpatch.tcl: support xz-compressed patchfiles

#53843

warning: 'syscall' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.12 - syscall(2) is unsupported; please switch to a supported interface

#53857

port -N reclaim does not remove any ports

#54037

port reclaim missing in man page of port

#54743

Binary-only mode requested with no usable archive sites configured

#55282

Lack of Xcode 9 update not detected with High Sierra OS.

#56053

Respect cxx_stdlib and delete_la_files in selection of archive_site

#56326

rev-upgrade considers gcc as broken due to libstdc++

#56434

Inconsistent flag names --nosync and --no-mirror

MacPorts 2.6.0

We identified a number of features that we think should be the next step after 2.5.0 and added them to the 2.6.0 milestone.

#37667

port lint should complain about using only md5 or sha1 checksums

#37867

Weird library install_names for MacPorts dylibs

#44451

Update Installer System Requirements info

#48345

Building for 10.4u SDK on 10.6 uses gcc-4.0 even though building directly on 10.4 uses the newer apple-gcc-4.2

#53851

Add port action that bumps version and checksum

#55139

RFE: Improve Compiler Management Code

#56041

Update compiler selection for 10.6-10.8 with libc++

#56381

It would be nice if shell mode saved command history immediately

#56563

Failed to activate: Cannot restore xattr:com.apple.decmpfs

#57003

port info order of fields is unexpected

#57143

Unable to determine location of a macOS SDK

#57245

Confusing message when attempting to use +universal with the macOS 10.14 SDK

#57457

Travis CI: Sometimes declared dependencies aren't installed

#57717

archive_site_local doesn't work at all

#57718

Unexpected behavior when archive_site_local contains more than 1 URL

#58016

Unnecessary warning about Xcode and xcodebuild when installing port

#58309

NOP port upgrade outdated returns error status

#58914

'bump' action not mentioned in port(1) man page

#59061

2.6.0 rc1 and beta1 packages won't open on SnowLeopard