Kris Kennaway wrote:
Actually, I found it quite easy to have the port pull the sources from
svn. Who are we concerned about making it easier for and why (and how
is it any easier?)
Everyone behind a firewall that only allows fetching via HTTP/FTP, for
one. Also everyone without live network access, and those with
pay-per-download who have a free local distfile mirror, etc.
Tarballs are overwhelmingly preferred.
Kris
Ok... I was looking at it from the standpoint of someone who wants the
newest version and doesn't care of the pkg-plist is stale. They could
just bump PORTREVISION and reinstall.
So... how about this:
- A distfile target which generates a distfile. The idea being that
this would be the one on the local distfile mirror or what have you.
- A WITH_SVN option (defaults to off) which allows the end user to
specify he/she wants to use the subversion.
In this case then, the end user would need to bump PORTREVISION and
enable the WITH_SVN option.
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