Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 00:05:35 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Moving to synth Message-ID: <56B91F3F.2030604@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20160208225335.GI71035@eureka.lemis.com> References: <56B752FD.6000906@marino.st> <20160208134044.GA7839@lonesome.com> <56B89C6F.2010800@marino.st> <20160208220731.GH71035@eureka.lemis.com> <56B91391.8050605@marino.st> <20160208225335.GI71035@eureka.lemis.com>
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On 2/8/2016 11:53 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> So how would things improve in this respect if we change to synth?
> There we need a maintainer who understands Ada. OK, at the moment
> that's you. But what happens when you relinquish maintainership for
> whatever reason?
Another thing I've said repeatedly: Evaluate portmaster on it's own
merit. THis is not about replacements. Whether or not there are
alternatives has *NOTHING* to do with whether portmaster is in good
shape and is of good quality.
To answer your question: IF synth gets into the handbook and then it
becomes unmaintained, then you remove it from the handbook. I am
totally fine with that. That's how it should be.
> My feeling on the matter is that there's space for more than one tool,
> as Mathias suggested. But I think it would help synth to have
> user-oriented documentation similar to that for portmaster or
> portupgrade ("to achieve this, do this..."). I could see this as a
> good addition to the handbook (4.5.3.3). A(n objective) discussion of
> the pros and cons of the three alternatives would also be useful.
that's what the PR was about but the PR was closed before that was
outlined, but it would likely need a section like poudriere, not a
subsection.
If there are 4 tools in good standing, great! I never said there had to
be only one. Notice I have not been saying anything about portupgrade.
Why? because it's maintained.
John
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