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Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS
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[ Lars Eighner wrote on Fri  7.Sep'12 at 10:00:45 -0500 ]

> 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?

They're not broken. I've recently been using them and they're fine.
There has been plenty of discussion about the reasons for the changes so
have a read from the various sites and list archives.