From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 05:13:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD0916A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 05:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22AE43D2F for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 05:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 3D8AF530A; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 4E3625309; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id EFA0033CAA; Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:52 +0200 (CEST) To: Garance A Drosihn References: From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Garance A. Drosihn's message of "Mon, 24 May 2004 00:07:34 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Third "RFC" on on pkg-data ideas for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:13:59 -0000 Garance A Drosihn writes: > The third proposal is basically: > [rewrite the ports system from scratch] > So, should we pursue any of this? You can't possibly seriously believe that the project will adopt this model without first seeing proof that it works and has significant advantages (and no significant disadvantages) over the existing model. This (reengineering the ports tree) has been tried before, BTW. It didn't fly, and the project (openpackages.org) is now dead. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no