From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 16:45:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA8F949 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdml@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A776DDEC for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.21] (unknown [130.255.16.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D38843BA1 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 11:45:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51A38D87.8070102@marino.st> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:44:55 +0200 From: John Marino User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh 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> In-Reply-To: <20130527173633.0e196a08@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:45:09 -0000 On 5/27/2013 18:36, RW wrote: > >> Like 4 patches >> per minute slow. You have no sympathy for somebody that has to >> download all 900+ patches from the beginning? > > A little if it's the first time they've ever built vim on FreeBSD, > and they have have genuine good reason for not being able to wait an > extra minute. 900 patches /4 patches/min = 225 minutes = 3.75 hours hardly an "extra minute" >> The "slow" complaint is not trivial, it's very, very real. Saying >> you haven't seen it doesn't make it less real, you probably just >> didn't sit there and watch it from patch#1. > > No, it's because I've been using FreeBSD since before August 2010 > when that patch was created. I've been using FreeBSD since version 4.10, but that doesn't imply that I've every downloaded vim patches before. > I just tried deleting all the patches and refetching and it took 74 > seconds, it's scarcely a major problem. Great. With the previous mirror I had it would have taken well over an hour back when the patch count was 700. That is a major problem for others, despite the fact that it's not a problem for you. It's obviously true since multiple users are seeing it. (the whole 1080 movie analogy, remember?) John