scope of the port re-engineering project

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Disclaimer:

    This does not commit me, anyone else and/or FreeBSD to an course
of action nor does it imply such a commitment.

Assuming that the following is true:

    1. There is a "proven" need to re-engineer the ports system as
demostrated by posts to -ports@ and the results of the survey on
re-engineering the ports system

    2. Any system will correct your own personal "worst aspect" of the
ports system but will not do so at the expense of breaking any high
level functionality

Please answer the following questions:

1. Using the items listed in the next section please select the best
scope of the project assuming that 100% backwards compatibility with
the current ports system is maintained?

2. Using the items listed in the next section please select the best
scope of the project assuming that 100% backwards compatibility with
the current ports system is *NOT* maintained?

Possible project scopes:

a. Refactor the current system only
b. Redesign and recoding of the current system
c. Attempt to unify all methods of FreeBSD software installation into
a single system
d. Same as c but for all BSD like OS's
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