Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:14:22 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>, John Marino <marino@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <56B36ACE.1010506@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <8b37e4951fc45b4f1eeaf5eb67f76804@gahr.ch> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <8b37e4951fc45b4f1eeaf5eb67f76804@gahr.ch>
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On 2/4/2016 3:54 PM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 2016-01-26 12:23, John Marino wrote: > I see ports-mgmt/synth is under heavy development, good. > I have seen a fairly large number of commits to that port lately, and > from what I've read in the commit messages, compatibility is not really > taken care of at this point. I seem to remember one commit where one > option changed meaning, another fixing a corruption issue, etc.. > This is *all good*, really, it's an indication that the project is > progressing. > But would you honestly advise people to use it in production? Yes. It's not at 1.00 yet. I'm getting lots of feedback and testing, and the commits are a reflect of that. When there is no more feedback, I'll move it to 1.00. I could have picked another name instead of repurposing a command, but for the long term, changing the command now to something intuitive is a small price to pay. > portmaster had its limitations, but I always found it to be reliable. At > least, it wouldn't change the meaning of options under my nose from one > commit to the next one. It's a beta/release candidate before the first release. I think it's permissible. Not ideal, but this would be the time to do it. By the way (for everyone), why not at least *try* Synth before declaring portmaster good enough? There were some die-hard portmaster users that changed over immediately and did not look back. Some poudriere users have changed, but not all (which is okay as poudriere is a fine tool). But I would advise actually given Synth an honest test and then remark on it. John
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