cports snapshot - it's been brewing for a while now

I've finally decided that it's about time to share the big dirty hacks inside of the cports fork that we've been cooking up in work. It's been sitting long enough without me wanting to plug more stuff in the core of cports/mpkg for the past month or two. I've only been adding new packages to the system.

For now there are just snapshots which I put online at my workplace

I've posted to the Caos mailing list, so let's see who bites. If there is enough interest (if at all) I'll put up a public git repo to allow for submissions of packages and fixes. I suspect the right thing to do is that it might be worth handing the whole thing back upstream so I don't need to deal with it.

There's still a bunch of outstanding issues that we haven't resolved. Such as having MKL as a BLAS/LAPACK alternative to ATLAS/LAPACK, dummy packages to provide modules for vendor MPI's (e.g. MPI stacks from QLOGIC or VOLTAIRE).

On other cports related stuff, it seems that Caos-NSA isn't as dead as I thought it was.

Memory debuggers and garbage collectors for C/C++
Posted Sat 16 Jul 2011 12:26:33 PM BST