Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[wen heping]

2011/1/10 John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st>:
> 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

Better one shar file per port.

wen

> 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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