From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 22:12:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 A6BAB16A420 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:12:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594FE43D48 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:12:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 090D53073; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:12:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:12:08 -0500 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051021221208.GB18988@soaustin.net> References: <790a9fff0510171505i4010cc05yc30f67d459d1a0e4@mail.gmail.com> <20051018010446.GH71766@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20051018011616.GA57969@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051018153752.GB11790@soaustin.net> <20051018160725.GB87664@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20051018162907.GB14192@soaustin.net> <20051019214018.GA5180@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20051020200315.GA25164@soaustin.net> <20051021212908.GA1384@Pandora.MHoerich.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051021212908.GA1384@Pandora.MHoerich.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Subject: Re: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports 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, 21 Oct 2005 22:12:09 -0000 On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:29:09PM +0200, Mario Hoerich wrote: > I'd favor a set of tools, a library and an ncurses frontend *in base*. > The current set > > * cvsup (what happened to csup btw?) As stated many times in the past, cvsup is not going into base due to its dependency on modula-3. FreeBSD went through a great deal of pain and trouble to wean itself off having perl in the base system, for reasons that have been adequately documented and argued over. We are not going to go backwards. In any case modula-3 does not even work on all of our architectures. As for your other ports in this list, there is a meta-port that will install them all, you know. > The thought is actually quite nice, but the logical groups aren't > disjoint on any count. The "ports for end-users" contain plenty > of ports for devs (e.g. audio/p5-Filesys-Virtual-DAAP), whereas > many actual end-user ports (e.g. Firefox) are elsewhere. True, but we're talking about what can be done in hours instead of in weeks or months, here. mcl