Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 02:02:13 +0000 From: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, "portmgr-feedback@freebsd.org" <portmgr-feedback@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ACTION REQUIRED - Unstaged Ports being DEPRECATED on June 31st. Message-ID: <536EDA23.6090401@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zOvQAJB81BEThcpGh%2BGn6WbP74LAi3zQ=AWkTn-wCOyhg@mail.gmail.com> References: <536E46E0.7030906@FreeBSD.org> <CAJuc1zOvQAJB81BEThcpGh%2BGn6WbP74LAi3zQ=AWkTn-wCOyhg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/10/2014 08:48 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On 11 May 2014 03:33, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > [...] >> So we will be DEPRECATING and resetting maintainer on all unstaged ports >> on June 31st. >> >> These ports will be set to EXPIRE on August 31st and will then be >> removed from the tree. They will not be restored unless someone stages >> them as well. >=20 > The problem I have with this decision is that there are some complex > ports which have no single maintainer (case in point: eclipse-devel); > and whose patch-submitters only occasionally dabble with the port. > Staging support for these ports sometimes tend to be over-complex, and > one that yield no immediate benefit to the submitter. >=20 > And then there are the ports which have their have their home-baked > installer, where adding staging support could mean wholesale changes > to the port. >=20 > It used to be the philosophy of FreeBSD to favour pragmatism over > ideology. I must admit to some disappointment over this decision to > force staging as the "one true way". I have noticed that "make all" now includes the staging as well as building. That is to say, it looks like there is a rather wholesale reordering of how ports build and install. From this I conclude it is becoming harder to include the legacy NO_STAGE code, which presumably must stick to the old way of doing things. Of course I might be wrong. But if I am right, then it will become increasingly difficult to allow unstaged ports.
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