[PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
<wahjava.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> In <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A at gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>>
>>> It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking
>>> upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool,
>>> but unfortunately that's practically impossible.
>>
>> Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model, like
>> glibc.
>
> What kind of model ? You mean using repositories instead of release
> tarballs, hmm..?

Exactly.
-Garrett