Tag tarballs should contain everything needed about mongohub-mac

[jeromelebel]

I don't see the point of building previous version : they are buggy, very buggy ! Please don't build and don't use any version before 2.4.8. But I don't know much about package managers...

And for the future, I don't know how to include the source code of those libraries into MongoHub tarballs, I don't do those tarballs. I can tell you which version, but how do you want me to tell you?

[ryandesign]

If I write a MacPorts package for MongoHub 2.4.8 today, then I want a MacPorts user installing it to always get MongoHub 2.4.8, because that is the version I tested before publishing the package, even if you subsequently release a later version. As package maintainer, I need the opportunity to test a version of the software before I publish it to my users.

MongoHub's xcodeproj currently downloads the "master" of mongo-c-driver, mongo-objc-driver, and libjson; my suggestion is that you change the xcodeproj to download specific known-good versions of each of those libraries. For example, mongo-c-driver's latest tag is 0.4, so modify the xcodeproj to download and use that version instead of master. mongo-objc-driver doesn't have any tags, so you should make one, then use that in MongoHub. libjson's latest tag is 0.8, which is over a year old, so I suspect you will want to tag a newer version of that too, and use that new tag inMongoHub. That will solve the reproducibility problem. And if it is possible to tell Xcode that I have already downloaded a tarball of each of those libraries so it doesn't need to download them itself, then that solves the other problem.

[jeromelebel]

I agree my solution about building mongohub when the sources are downloaded (without using git), is not perfect. But the main goal of this forks was to compile on Xcode 4, with lion, without any library/framework dependancies. The point is to build from scratch from git. And for that, I'm happy. And hopefully, at some point, the objective-c driver will not change much.

Anyway I don't mind having mongohub in macports but that's not my goal.