Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 00:05:05 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <20130528000505.6c506b1a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <51A3C331.901@marino.st> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <20130527140609.3d3b9d23@gumby.homeunix.com> <444ndofstn.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20130527153440.020ab20e@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3798C.9000004@marino.st> <20130527173633.0e196a08@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A38D87.8070102@marino.st> <20130527183620.5ff9d8b0@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3A813.1060908@marino.st> <20130527210924.36432f32@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3C331.901@marino.st>
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On Mon, 27 May 2013 22:33:53 +0200 John Marino wrote: > On 5/27/2013 22:09, RW wrote: > > On Mon, 27 May 2013 20:38:11 +0200 > > John Marino wrote: > > > > > > No, that's something you just made up. It is however vague and > > anecdotal. We have only one data point that we know is from this > > year and not self-inflicted, even if the others are, for all we > > know it could still be fast most of the time. > > > > Some monitoring would be useful. > > > > However you slice it, a distinfo file with 1000+ entries is > completely absurd. 95% of the blame goes to Vim developers. > However, it is within the realm of feasibility to pre-package patches > in batches of 100 (or conversely 1 tarball of patches rolled for > every time patch count hits multiple of 100). In other words downloading every patch twice. > At the very, very least maybe only HTTP hosts are listed for VIM (I > just checked bsd.sites.mk, the ftp sites are all at the end of the > list now) All 13 http links would have to fail before the ftp links are tried. > It looks like some of this was addressed in January though: I already told you that. > > I may have still been on the old bsd.sites.mk with a site > 10 > seconds per file. (this is yet another data point) We already knew that it was slow before January, so that's irrelevant.
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