From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 06:45:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org 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 7580C16A4DD for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from novel@smtp.hispeed.ch) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (mxout.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892F943D53 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from novel@smtp.hispeed.ch) Received: from coredump.fannet.ru (R1-Vl6-82-116-56-21.fannet.ru [82.116.56.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.6/taifun-1.0) with ESMTP id k7I6j8UB011131; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:45:09 +0200 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:45:37 +0400 From: Roman Bogorodskiy To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060818064537.GA78016@underworld.novel.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , ports@freebsd.org References: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> <20060816172835.GA29719@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060817053955.GD62148@underworld.novel.ru> <20060817124739.GA3643@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060817124739.GA3643@xor.obsecurity.org> X-PGP: http://people.freebsd.org/~novel/novel.key.asc X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on smtp-06.tornado.cablecom.ch X-Virus-Status: Clean X-DCC-spamcheck-02.tornado.cablecom.ch-Metrics: smtp-06.tornado.cablecom.ch 1378; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports tree tagging again X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:45:12 -0000 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris Kennaway wrote: > > If this comes up every few months, then it's really needed, isn't it? >=20 > No, it means that a handful of people think that it would be great if > the rest of the people all started doing more work to support their > idea. I'm not the only person who wants to have stable ports tree and binary packages. Actually, about 90% people whom I asked about that said it would be nice. > kuriyama's proof of concept shows that the infrastructure for > supporting such a third party ports project (i.e. importing the > freebsd ports tree into another repository, and then merging from > there to your other branches) is not difficult to set up; so if you > and others think that a stable ports branch is a worthwhile project, > then take the lead, go and set it up, and if there's truly a demand > for it then you'll see the evidence of that. You're not going to get > anywhere if you expect someone else to do the hard work for you. kuriyama's proof of concept shows as well that the project will die very fast without the support from freebsd. > > And I personally have no enough resources to provide binary packages > > for all supported arches (and I'm not sure about i386 even). >=20 > Neither do we, so packages for a stable branch are infeasible anyway. I don't believe we cannot do _anything_ about it. --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBROViEIB0WzgdqspGAQJwiwP/QrHgg867Lbq/A6TAq2lgUTDpfGQki4Gu 3flHAYDuy6BwqWIvldBthcdp44T7m/R8Auvrsz6t0XsxC+MFmxNjD5xNo+M1zAHn NLm3llcfzZYbVpfTvUktZdpvP/HlUzK8OicO2lgofyunfpDH98GAOCVS/WnE8Qag xtDVLh1Fe0I= =9IQo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--