Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[John Marino]

Okay, I'll figure out how to do that.
Now, would it be one shar per port?  as opposed to one shar to cover all 
7 ports?
John

On 1/9/2011 6:43 PM, jhelfman at experts-exchange.com wrote:
> Customarily, new ports should have a shell archive, or shar, attached to
> the PR.
>
> -jgh
>
>> So I will submit all 7 ports at once.
>> My intention is just to attach a compressed tarball to the PR that
>> contain all 7 ports inside.
>> Is that alright?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> On 1/5/2011 12:53 AM, wen heping wrote:
>>> 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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