portmaster new development

[Chris]

On 2020-12-28 05:16, Stefan Esser wrote:
> Am 28.12.20 um 11:11 schrieb abi via freebsd-ports:> I build my ports in 
> poudriere
> in VM without zfs or ssd on pre-Sandy
>> Bridge CPU. I don't have enough memory or disk space, so I don't use tmpfs 
>> or ccache either. I migrated from portmaster when it was abandoned several 
>> years ago and don't think I'll come back, especially if new portmaster will 
>> be written on bash. The idea behind portmaster was zero dependencies, so it 
>> doesn't brake after major upgrades.
> 
> You are free to use poudriere and it definitely is the official tool
> for FreeBSD package building (and I have to use it myself and it has
> cost me a lot of time rebuilding broken poudriere jails and keeping
> them in state that I can use them to test new ports on a number of
> different releases as well as i386 plus amd64).
> 
> And while you are free to never again use portmaster, telling people
> that it has been abandoned is just a _lie_ and I'd want to ask you to
> stop telling it. It has been continuously maintained for decades.
> 
> The next version will not be using bash but LUA, which is highly
> portable and does not have problematic dependencies. I'm well aware
> that a pure shell script has its advantages, but bringing down the
> time to scan for updates on my system from 300 to less than 10 seconds
> (for > 2000 installed packages) combined with the ability to build
> ports in a clean jail might make it an attractive choice for current
> users of the /bin/sh based version.

The lovely thing about options, is that *everyone* gets to have one.
The more the merrier! :-)

@Stefan
Really excited to hear about your LUA version of portmaster.
Thanks! :-)

--Chris

> 
> Regards, STefan