Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:24:20 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Ports" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade to Perl 5.10.0 ?? Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0807131224t28282dddx5b92c3eb8c445a77@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0807131223s4659bd3cv6e0a633daf6f2d05@mail.gmail.com> References: <200807100340.38399.david@vizion2000.net> <200807110919.50885.david@vizion2000.net> <18551.34465.624986.569002@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200807111138.36884.david@vizion2000.net> <4877AC3E.3050800@FreeBSD.org> <84B7D49E-038C-4AEB-A7E8-95135698C4F0@khera.org> <487A1D33.7070209@sh.cvut.cz> <7d6fde3d0807131221r41f6a361x71df518eca3f3c46@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0807131223s4659bd3cv6e0a633daf6f2d05@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote= : > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:20 AM, V=E1clav Haisman <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz> = wrote: >> >> What if the ports infrastructure had additional flag, say EXPERIMENTAL. >> Ports marked as such would not build/install by default unless something= , >> say ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_PORTS=3Dyes, was defined. That way we (people >> interested in the port) can work on improving it without burdening users >> that want just stable things. >> >> Without existing port, even if broken one, nobody can easily start helpi= ng, >> unless the person wants to start over from scratch, which is considerabl= y >> harder than starting from semi-finished/working port. > > V=E1clav, > Given experience with the ports tree, it's such a large beast > that doing something like that would be unreasonable. This isn't > Gentoo's portage tree where packages can be masked and unmasked at > will. Adding an EXPERIMENTAL flag would just complicate things a lot. > However, like back in the day (last year) when major changes > affected the ports tree when X.org 7.2 was being imported, Florent > published a snapshot of the tree (IIRC) and allowed people to verify > whether or not it was stable. Then again the main ports tree was also > frozen, so meh... > Operating with a separate Perl ports dir (lang/perl5.10) than > mainline (lang/perl) would also be helpful I would think... > -Garrett s/unreasonable/reasonable/
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