Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:09:22 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org>, Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it>, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XPI infrastructure needs some love Message-ID: <AANLkTimB69oWG386qJHrLujT%2Bs%2BCjU2zswfKM=yyvdnj@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C86F769.2020704@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C866AB3.4030802@lapo.it> <4C868650.7090504@FreeBSD.org> <4C869EA8.4020002@lapo.it> <4C86F769.2020704@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 19:39, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > My concern with this for some time is that there is little to no actual > benefit for the vast majority of these ports, however they do consume > resources. Admittedly not an overwhelming number of resources, but given the > fact that ports/package resources are stretched thin, and we'd like to > expand support for packages going forward, I think we need to carefully > evaluate these choices, especially given that we're losing maintainers. As a > quick overview I did a find for ports with xpi in the name and there are > well over 100. That doesn't include other ports with different naming > conventions. > > My suggestion is that we simply eliminate these ports altogether, but I > realize that's not likely to happen. :) Around 6 months ago, a similar thing was proposed for a number of eclipse plugins - they can all be installed and updated via the builtin update manager and nothing is built for FreeBSD - they are just Java stuff that can be binary downloaded and run anywhere. People wanted them kept because in a corporate environment the admin can provide a consistent version to all users and update them using whatever methods they already use for other ports. -- Rob Farmer
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