From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 27 02:43:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD126E8C; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x232.google.com (mail-pa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9251914B8; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id kp14so5330231pab.23 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:43:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ANnR+6FAk5CDml45KIo20QG3h3LC/HPvdab4aCp28aA=; b=VgVuWURacgHz1sW0LsVnaiV5xp7fD7BSuakCUS9+q9uERBmNc/Ha0HQuKo4iyDD9jS llDuSegAwXHDYrInURiHKPbX8uYOHX1KMcGqIP/OQ06YPT18JaEp9JhllLtsjDWPfAqT P34LazOcKJgQCuh3wr0zU1E9hCMBmIEMpY4GpyudSsdQv1AzWEbGKkLhmSlDROf9Xj8p nfG8qKm+O7TF3jz/oVupU4Mc+mM0OnbbjAmBrtcLjkch9qgSPoNZ90NXHvUrv8M3lRO7 NDLgHzsV2Rr41vzFsqT7oV2zqPiRgxrYG10bQVsz527xzGL8U5Gs+qK0kjzJDUZ/ZS5h /QaA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.189.5 with SMTP id ge5mr27528937pbc.42.1390790625136; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:43:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.155.38 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:43:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52E5757F.8000604@freebsd.org> References: <52E43A80.4030501@rawbw.com> <52E44BC1.7040404@rawbw.com> <52E46D44.6050403@freebsd.org> <52E47EF7.7040402@ohlste.in> <52E55186.7020009@freebsd.org> <52E55361.3000108@freebsd.org> <52E5757F.8000604@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:43:44 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? From: Aryeh Friedman To: Alfred Perlstein Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:43:45 -0000 ) > > > If aegis is so much better then we should use it. Or everyone should use > it... but why isn't everyone using it? > Simple reason Peter Miller (the author of aegis/cook) for whatever reason *NEVER* tried to market his stuff while GIT made a specific effort of attempting to get outside users. Peter (like most FOSS authors) wrote it first and formost for himself and never say any need for others to use it per se. It would take too long to summarize all the differences (I have already stated the major ones in the thread though). If your really interested take a look at the material at aegis.sf.net. > Can you explain? > > Seriously, if it's so much better then please do tell! > The #1 reason (above all else IMO) is it doesn't rely (directly or indirectly) on any third party for it's basic operation (which github does unless the foundation wanted to duplicate which is a waste of time). The other main reason it works with existing tools where from what you describe GitHub requires you install something (by working I mean you can look at the baseline without any special tools) Finally since your addicted to newness you will not get the most important difference aegis has been in production for over 20 years where git hub 5 or 6? -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org