Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[John Marino]

So I will submit all 7 ports at once.
My intention is just to attach a compressed tarball to the PR that 
contain all 7 ports inside.
Is that alright?

Thanks,
John

On 1/5/2011 12:53 AM, wen heping wrote:
> 2011/1/4 John Marino<freebsdml at marino.st>:
>> Thanks Wen,
>> I submitted PR 153676 to delete the old gnat doc ports.
>> Regarding the seven new ports, should I write one PR to cover all seven, or
>> seven individual PRs?  Some are dependencies of others, so it kind of makes
> Both OK.
>
> wen
>
>> sense to submit them together.
>>
>> John
>>
>> wen heping wrote:
>>> Better to send PRs to add or remove these ports. I am intersting to take.
>>>
>>> wen
>>>
>>> 2011/1/4 John Marino<freebsdml at marino.st>:
>>>> Before opening an Problem Reports, I thought I'd run what I'd like to do
>>>> by
>>>> the FreeBSD ports mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> The following five ports need to be deleted:
>>>> lang/gnat-doc-html
>>>> lang/gnat-doc-info
>>>> lang/gnat-doc-ps
>>>> lang/gnat-doc-texi
>>>> lang/gnat-doc-tex
>>>> Reason:  These provide documentation for GNAT 3.15p, which was deleted
>>>> from
>>>> the ports tree more than 5 years ago.  Should I submit a PR to get this
>>>> done?  There is no maintainer listed for them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, I've been working for months to bring GNAT, the GNAT
>>>> Programming
>>>> Studio (GPS), the Ada Web Server (AWS), and other packages to all four
>>>> major
>>>> BSDs.  The website tracking the progress of this work is
>>>> http://www.dragonlace.net
>>>>
>>>> I've already developed seven FreeBSD ports for the following:
>>>> GNAT-AUX (based on GCC 4.6)
>>>> GPS 5.0
>>>> AWS 2.10w
>>>> GPRBuild-AUX
>>>> GnatPython
>>>> GTKAda 2.22
>>>> XML/Ada 4.1w
>>>>
>>>> The last six ports on the list don't currently exist in the tree.  "GNAT
>>>> AUX" is a significantly patched version of GNAT that passes all tests
>>>> (~3200) on both AMD64 and i386.
>>>>
>>>> It should replace the gnat-gcc44 port which doesn't produce a usable
>>>> AMD64
>>>> GNAT (The port maintainer agreed on IRC #Ada).  Additionally, gnat-gcc42
>>>> should be pruned because it doesn't build on FreeBSD 8.  The other FSF
>>>> GNAT
>>>> port is gnat-gcc43.  It builds on FreeBSD 7 and 8, but only for the i386
>>>> platform.  I don't know how well it passes the regression testsuite.
>>>>   There
>>>> could be a debate if there's value in having gnat-gcc43 in the tree once
>>>> GNAT-AUX is available.
>>>>
>>>> Some of the proposed ports require "GPRBuild" to build, and the version
>>>> of
>>>> GPRBuild I'm providing requires GNAT AUX.  It will not build on GNAT GPL
>>>> or
>>>> any gnat-gcc both due to changes in the compiler and hardcoded executable
>>>> names.  This would also be a reason to prune the older GNAT ports as they
>>>> would not be able to build many (or any?) of the Ada software in the
>>>> ports
>>>> tree anyway.
>>>>
>>>> What's the best approach to add these 7 Ada ports (again, already
>>>> developed)
>>>> and start removing the useless ones?  I'm willing to maintain  the all
>>>> the
>>>> ports that I submit.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John
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