Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:00:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> To: Beat Gaetzi <beat@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209070958550.1692@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> In-Reply-To: <5049EA50.4040001@FreeBSD.org> References: <5049EA50.4040001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > The development of FreeBSD ports is done in Subversion nowadays. > For the sake of compatibility a Subversion to CVS exporter is > in place which has some limitations. For CVSup mirroring cvsup > based on Ezm3 is used which breaks regularly especially on amd64 > and with Clang and becomes more and more unmaintainable. What exactly is the motivation again for moving from things which work like cvsup and gcc to things that are broken or lame like subversion and clang? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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