Interesting thread, I've learned more about FreeBSD build here than almost anywhere else.
Thanks OP for the email. On Thu, Oct 5, 2017, 09:14 Adam Weinberger <ad...@adamw.org> wrote: > > On 4 Oct, 2017, at 10:16, Michael W. Lucas <mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm doing tech edits on the new edition of "Absolute FreeBSD," and > > stumbled into what's apparently a delicate topic. > > > > Some of my reviewers are happy I included portmaster in the book. > > > > Some reviewers beg me not to include it. > > > > Unfortunately, people will be reading af3e and considering it > > definitive for the next several years. So I have to get a feel for > > where things are going. :-/ > > > > I've read a couple threads on portmaster's current problems/growing > > pains and its looming difficulty with forthcoming flavors. > > > > I've been a happy portmaster user for many years now. All things being > > equal, if its future is still being debated I'm inclined to keep it in > > the book. > > > > Poudriere really needs its own small book. Yes, you can do simple > > poudriere installs, but once you start covering it properly the docs > > quickly expand. My notes alone are longer than my af3e chapter > > limits. (I'll probably publish "FreeBSD Packaging Misery^WMastery" in > > 2018). > > > > Truly, I'm not looking to start a flame war here. I only want a bit of > > guidance on The Future... > > > > ==ml > > Hi Michael, > > Poudriere is indeed intended to be the canonical port building and > management tool. It is what essentially the entire ports committer team > uses, it's what the clusters build with, and it is where support for new > features land first. > > Portmaster is a tried-and-tested tool for automating port builds. > Poudriere wants to be everything to everybody, but portmaster is as simple > to use as possible. The current issue is that portmaster is no longer > actively developed. Major new features are about to land in the ports tree, > and portmaster will either not support them, or will break entirely. > > The official message is that everybody for whom Poudriere's workflow works > should migrate to Poudriere to avoid the impending breakage. > > Portmaster is still very much a part of the current landscape, and if > somebody steps in to fix it (which I have every expectation will happen > eventually), it will continue being a usable alternative. > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > ad...@adamw.org > https://www.adamw.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
