svn commit: r476592 - in head/lang: . io io-devel

[Pietro Cerutti]

> On 7 Aug 2018, at 18:44, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:29:06PM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>>> On Aug 07 2018, 14:24 UTC, Jochen Neumeister <joneum at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 8/7/18 2:41 PM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>>>> Author: gahr
>>>> Date: Tue Aug  7 12:41:26 2018
>>>> New Revision: 476592
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/476592
>>>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>>  lang/io-devel: new port, development snapshot of lang/io
>>>> 
>>>> Added:
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/Makefile   (contents, props changed)
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/distinfo   (contents, props changed)
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/pkg-descr   (contents, props changed)
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/pkg-message   (contents, props changed)
>>>>  head/lang/io-devel/pkg-plist   (contents, props changed)
>>>> Modified:
>>>>  head/lang/Makefile
>>>>  head/lang/io/Makefile
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Heya Pietro,
>>> 
>>> would not it be better to use a copy of "io" here?
>>> So "svn cp lang/io lang/io-devel - and then continue editing?
>> 
>> Hi - yeah in principle why not, but the two ports are different enough that
>> I chose to go the clean way and create this new one from scratch.
>> 
>> The principal reason for the big difference is that AddOns are handled as
>> OPTIONS in the old port, and not handled at all in the new one.
> 
> The only reason to not use svn cp is if the software is not the same.
> Here, it is clearly the same with a different version.  Please re-add
> the port correctly.

svn cp + edit would lead to a 100% diff to anything semantically relevant to the software version (i.e., apart maintainer and such).

The -devel version is as clean as can be, quite different in term of generated package and Make machinery, and I really see no value in keeping the tortuous history of the original port.

What gain do you see?

-- 
Pietro Cerutti