Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:14:31 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: rodrigc@freebsd.org Subject: [PROPOSAL]: remove devel/apr-svn in favor of devel/apr Message-ID: <487FA827.6000303@p6m7g8.com>
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Hi All, I discussed this briefly with pav@, and flz@ on irc already. I've CC'ed rodrigc@ (maintainer) here. I would like to deprecate/remove devel/apr-svn. The reason for this port as far as I knew/know was to force disabling threads in APR for use in subversion. Now that 5.x is EOL in ports, we don't need this. The only left over is that ports will need to set WITH_APR_UTIL_BDB=yes (only if they want the result to be the same). Personally, I think far more people use fsfs for subversion than do bdb. At the very least, this will fix itectu@'s commit to mark devel/p5-subversion broken today. It should also help with maintenance, and library version bumps which If I had to guess with my Apache hat on, will be more frequent as time goes on. I'll volunteer to send the patch for the ~70 ports that Tools/scripts/bump_version.pl says depends on devel/apr-svn. It would probably be good to request a cluster-exp run with it before comitting though. If you don't think this is a good idea, speak up and why. Otherwise, I'll start work on this next week.
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