From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 28 13:14:54 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 442B27D for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 13:14:54 +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 21F099D0 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 13:14:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.237] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEBB43B4E for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 08:14:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51A4ADCC.4070204@marino.st> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:14:52 +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> In-Reply-To: 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: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:14:54 -0000 On 5/28/2013 14:09, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2013 16:23:18 -0500, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > >> - It fetches almost 700 patches from what seems like a dial-up >> connection in AUSTRALIA. > > Australia's deploying fiber, so joke's on you! > > But honestly this is horrible. I'm sitting at my desk at a well-peered > ISP with plenty of bandwidth and low, low latency and these patches are > taking forever. Someone should just add a pre-fetch routine that > downloads the first 1000 patches in a tarball, puts them in distfiles, > and they well all be verified and the remaining few be fetched normally. > > Someone should teach upstream a serious lesson about versioning. Maybe > someone just needs to fork vim and tag releases on github so we can > actually have a sane upstream. > > Good grief! Well Mark, haven't you realized yet that there's actually no problem and this is "almost completely about (your) laziness"[1]? All patches only take 74 seconds to download[2] so there is no sympathy for your obviously single data point anecdote, you're clearly doing something wrong. You need to stop complaining and start think about folks with slow connections[3] who also rebuild Vim frequently. Your prefetch/fork idea is obviously unworkable because the security issues can't be solved.[4] [1]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-May/083880.html [2]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-May/083849.html [3]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-May/083844.html [4]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-May/083882.html Regards, John P.S. Hopefully it's obvious this is tongue in cheek.