Move ctm to ports?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 12/05/11 08:26, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Roman Kurakin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >>> How would people feel about removing ctm and mkctm from the base
> >>> system, and making it into a port?
> 
> OK, I am persuaded - no moving CTM to ports.

Thanks :-)


> I'll see if I can get a 
> src commit bit, with the promise that I will only touch the ctm stuff.

I'm sure you'll have the backing of us ctm-users :-)


> Next - suppose I want to make svn-cur officially part of CTM.  Do any of 
> you see a problem with having something in the base depending upon 
> something in the ports - namely subversion and xz?  (And hopefully in 
> the next few years, subversion will become part of base.)

No problem, XZ moved from ports a while back, it's in src/ 8.2 Release.


> Similarly, if you try to apply the svn deltas, you will get an error like
> 
> "You need to install subversion from the port devel/subversion."
> 
> So the errors would be run time, not compile time.

Sounds good.

Cheers,
Julian
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