Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[wen heping]

2011/1/4 John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st>:
> Thanks Wen,
> I submitted PR 153676 to delete the old gnat doc ports.
> Regarding the seven new ports, should I write one PR to cover all seven, or
> seven individual PRs?  Some are dependencies of others, so it kind of makes

Both OK.

wen

> sense to submit them together.
>
> John
>
> wen heping wrote:
>>
>> Better to send PRs to add or remove these ports. I am intersting to take.
>>
>> wen
>>
>> 2011/1/4 John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st>:
>>>
>>> Before opening an Problem Reports, I thought I'd run what I'd like to do
>>> by
>>> the FreeBSD ports mailing list.
>>>
>>> The following five ports need to be deleted:
>>> lang/gnat-doc-html
>>> lang/gnat-doc-info
>>> lang/gnat-doc-ps
>>> lang/gnat-doc-texi
>>> lang/gnat-doc-tex
>>> Reason:  These provide documentation for GNAT 3.15p, which was deleted
>>> from
>>> the ports tree more than 5 years ago.  Should I submit a PR to get this
>>> done?  There is no maintainer listed for them.
>>>
>>>
>>> Secondly, I've been working for months to bring GNAT, the GNAT
>>> Programming
>>> Studio (GPS), the Ada Web Server (AWS), and other packages to all four
>>> major
>>> BSDs.  The website tracking the progress of this work is
>>> http://www.dragonlace.net
>>>
>>> I've already developed seven FreeBSD ports for the following:
>>> GNAT-AUX (based on GCC 4.6)
>>> GPS 5.0
>>> AWS 2.10w
>>> GPRBuild-AUX
>>> GnatPython
>>> GTKAda 2.22
>>> XML/Ada 4.1w
>>>
>>> The last six ports on the list don't currently exist in the tree.  "GNAT
>>> AUX" is a significantly patched version of GNAT that passes all tests
>>> (~3200) on both AMD64 and i386.
>>>
>>> It should replace the gnat-gcc44 port which doesn't produce a usable
>>> AMD64
>>> GNAT (The port maintainer agreed on IRC #Ada).  Additionally, gnat-gcc42
>>> should be pruned because it doesn't build on FreeBSD 8.  The other FSF
>>> GNAT
>>> port is gnat-gcc43.  It builds on FreeBSD 7 and 8, but only for the i386
>>> platform.  I don't know how well it passes the regression testsuite.
>>>  There
>>> could be a debate if there's value in having gnat-gcc43 in the tree once
>>> GNAT-AUX is available.
>>>
>>> Some of the proposed ports require "GPRBuild" to build, and the version
>>> of
>>> GPRBuild I'm providing requires GNAT AUX.  It will not build on GNAT GPL
>>> or
>>> any gnat-gcc both due to changes in the compiler and hardcoded executable
>>> names.  This would also be a reason to prune the older GNAT ports as they
>>> would not be able to build many (or any?) of the Ada software in the
>>> ports
>>> tree anyway.
>>>
>>> What's the best approach to add these 7 Ada ports (again, already
>>> developed)
>>> and start removing the useless ones?  I'm willing to maintain  the all
>>> the
>>> ports that I submit.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
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