On 03/10/2011 12:05, Ade Lovett wrote:
On Mar 10, 2011, at 13:24 , Doug Barton wrote:
Can you give us an idea of how many ports we're talking about?
Rather than having 2 gmake ports (which is likely to last for a
very long time, "best laid plans" aside) can we at least explore
the idea of fixing things that are broken to work with 3.82 first?
My suggestion is to do the -exp run, then post here and to
maintainers of broken ports directly and see what a reasonable time
frame would be to get things fixed the right way first.
Preliminary runs show ~50 ports that break with 3.82, some of them
unfortunately being dependencies for a reasonable number of others.
An -exp has already been run, though there were a number of false
positives for whatever reason.
What I'm suggesting is that the URL for the logs of that run get posted
here, along with contacting the maintainers of the affected ports. Then
let's see what people have to say about getting them fixed sooner rather
than later. Can you explain why doing that would be a bad idea?
There will absolutely _not_ be two gmake ports for anything more than
a suitable deprecation period
I admire your optimism, however experience tells us that once these
types of accomodations get into the tree, they stay there for a long time.
My understanding is that there is _currently_ no pressure to get
gmake upgraded, so at least exploring the idea of doing it without
a kludge seems reasonable to me, although I'm happy to be proven
wrong.
The "kludge", in terms of actually testing things to get empirical
data, rather than hand-waving about the sky falling,
Um, no one said the sky is falling, and you've reacted emotionally to
the term "kludge" rather than answering my question about what the
urgency is to get the update done.
We have a plan, we're going to get the results
of that plan, and then do some analysis on it.
And my concern is that the plan seems to have been formulated without
wider input from the community. So I ask again ... what harm can come
from at least trying to fix the broken ports first?
Doug
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