making Ruby 1.9 default

milki milki at rescomp.berkeley.edu
Wed Mar 16 16:17:45 UTC 2011


On 11:25 Wed 16 Mar     , Eric wrote:
> There are plenty of outstanding PRs regarding portupgrade, which does seem
> to suffer from being both loved and unloved (in terms of maintenance).  I
> personally use it, but am wondering if it's time to switch to Doug's
> PortMaster now... However given that portupgrade is often noted in
> documentation as almost the default tool for doing upgrades of ports then it
> does seem sensible that we should all try our best to fix it.

I've been hanging out at #bsdports at efnet and I've gathered that is the
consensus of committers that portupgrade is no longer maintained and
portmaster is the preferred tool. The docs need some patching to reflect
this.

-- 
milki


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