Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:31:36 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Ashish_Shukla_=E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7_?=, FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles Message-ID: <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081209181354.GB29817@hades.panopticon> References: <87fxkxjywk.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081209143052.GA29817@hades.panopticon> <873agxjn1x.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <20081209181354.GB29817@hades.panopticon>
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On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking > upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool, > but unfortunately that's practically impossible. Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model, like glibc. -Garrett
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