Steps to prune and add Ada ports?

[jhelfman at experts-exchange.com]

Customarily, new ports should have a shell archive, or shar, attached to
the PR.

-jgh

> 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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