State of the Porters' Handbook

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 28/10/2013 09:58, John Marino wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 09:53, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 28/10/2013 09:47, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote:
>>> W dniu 2013-10-28 09:41, Dominic Fandrey pisze:
>>>
>>>> Neither staging nor license management are described in the Porters'
>>>> Handbook.
>>>>
>>>> Why again should we bother to support it?
>>>>
>>>> What happened to "the feature that is not documented doesn't exist"?
>>>
>>> Lack of good documentation is real problem for me to convert ports to
>>> staging. Porter's Handbook is seriously lagging behind recent changes -
>>> staging, license management, shabang fixes, etc.
>>
>> If it was up for a vote, I'd vote for a feature stop until the PH
>> is back in a decent condition.
>>
>> Kudos to the people who documented the new options framework.
>>
> 
> For all intents and purposes - licensing "feature" doesn't exist.  The
> same issues you are raising have been raised before.  Apparently the
> full licensing infrastructure is still lacking so it's in some kind of
> limbo.
> 
> However, converting to stagedir is reasonably documented here:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir

That's a handfull. What about installers that hard-code directories
during install?

> You don't have a choice with supporting stage -- new ports without stage
> aren't accepted.  So that's why you have to bother.  :)

That doesn't sound acceptable, considering the feature isn't even
mentioned in the Porters' Handbook.

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