MATE 'base' desktop is ready for anyone to test it.

[Thomas Mueller]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

>Hello all,

>The MATE base desktop (x11/mate-base) is ready to use and test. ...
>... To get it, you will need to grab
>marcusmerge script from http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge
>then run 'sh marcusmerge -m ports-experimental'.

Doug Barton responded:

>This is a great example of where a ports projects/ branch in svn would
>be very helpful. :)

I agree, either projects/, experimental/, wip/ or something like that for a testing branch.

NetBSD pkgsrc has a pkgsrc-wip (Work In Progress) branch separate from pkgsrc tree, at
pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net

FreeBSD users could then try out testing/beta versions of ports and give feedback.

Tom