Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:44:55 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The vim port needs a refresh Message-ID: <51A38D87.8070102@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20130527173633.0e196a08@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20130524212318.B967FE6739@smtp.hushmail.com> <20130527140609.3d3b9d23@gumby.homeunix.com> <444ndofstn.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20130527153440.020ab20e@gumby.homeunix.com> <51A3798C.9000004@marino.st> <20130527173633.0e196a08@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 5/27/2013 18:36, RW wrote: > >> Like 4 patches >> per minute slow. You have no sympathy for somebody that has to >> download all 900+ patches from the beginning? > > A little if it's the first time they've ever built vim on FreeBSD, > and they have have genuine good reason for not being able to wait an > extra minute. 900 patches /4 patches/min = 225 minutes = 3.75 hours hardly an "extra minute" >> The "slow" complaint is not trivial, it's very, very real. Saying >> you haven't seen it doesn't make it less real, you probably just >> didn't sit there and watch it from patch#1. > > No, it's because I've been using FreeBSD since before August 2010 > when that patch was created. I've been using FreeBSD since version 4.10, but that doesn't imply that I've every downloaded vim patches before. > I just tried deleting all the patches and refetching and it took 74 > seconds, it's scarcely a major problem. Great. With the previous mirror I had it would have taken well over an hour back when the patch count was 700. That is a major problem for others, despite the fact that it's not a problem for you. It's obviously true since multiple users are seeing it. (the whole 1080 movie analogy, remember?) John
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