No, autoinstall wasn't ported, when my current load of client work hit
I pretty much pulled back to doing nothing but trying to organize the porting effort. I've written very little code (for OpenACS, that is)
since getting back from my month-long sojurn in Canada.
As far as the results of the circular dependency, I'm not certain at the moment because it is being worked on. The first symptom was actually a failure on the part of the CR to load because it referenced
the non-existent acs-notifications package. Vinod fixed that and ran into the circular dependency problem but I don't know how much of that
got committed and how much of it is sitting waiting for a cure before getting committed.