On Mon, 31 May 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote:

Disadvantage:

With one big file it is next to impossible to build version 1.1.1 of one
port and 1.1.2 of another.

With current model i can check out specific branch for
all files/ports separately.

best regards,
taavi
>       Basically the format will be
>       graphics
>       graphics/gimp
>       graphics/gimp/Makefile
>       <blank><line 1 of makefile>
>       <you get the idea>
> 
>       It will be trivial to expand it into directories in order to
> build ports, and compact directories into the file once the port has
> been added/updated.
> 
>       Advantages:
>       1) the file behaves like any other source file as far as CVS and
> CVSup is concerned: one stores and transfers diffs only
>       2) shar does it (and this will not be much different)
>       3) well, it is ascii :)


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