Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:27:21 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008131114440.10877@aneurin.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <24369.29082.747815.264343@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <87e338e4-d1bf-d26f-d60d-8ac55ae25b70@FreeBSD.org> <49F5ED94-5ED3-4314-81EF-0F54EF36F377@grem.de> <24369.29082.747815.264343@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Robert Huff wrote: >> There are many users who never create any patches, but simply use the >> ports tree to install software. > > Add my name to that list. Mine too; this is a great way to drive "ordinary users" away from FreeBSD and towards, gasp, Penguin/OS... I took up FreeBSD when BSD/OS was shut down by WinDriver and found that the OpenBSD bods weren't too friendly towards newbies; the Mac is now my major system (with porting attempts to FreeBSD and Penguin, then back). Well, at least it has FreeBSD roots... > (Used to use cvsup ... now subversion ... soon git ... where will > the insanity end? :-) ) Hah! I started with SCCS :-) Before that we had an in-house system called SLUP (Source Line Update Program? This was in the 70s, and was based upon that canonical example of diff/ed). -- Dave
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