Bringing SUB-PACKAGES to ports

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Thu Dec 7 13:14:44 UTC 2017


> On 7 Dec, 2017, at 4:16, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You guys seem to be attempting to do some cool things here and I actually
> appreciate flavors since those tools; python, ruby, go, pearl, php, etc are
> too complicated to maintained without some types of "Flavors"
> 
> Android has been dealing with issues like this for a long time and they
> solved it with Gradle and product flavors:
> https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants.html
> 
> Instead of reinventing the wheel or knocking your head against brick walls,
> take a look at the product flavors for some inspiration?
> 
> subheading Configure Product Flavors:
> https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants.html

We already have flavors.

# Adam


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> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Thank you very much for flavors. It has been long awaited, and will be a
>> great step forward for FreeBSD.
>> 
>> Onwards and upwards: What is the status of subpackages?
>> 
>> Speaking to bapt at BSDTW, it sounded like flavors was going to be the
>> difficult change, and subpackages would then be easy.
>> 
>> Given that we are going through the transition to flavors now, and the
>> ports tools are getting updated to support it, would it be a good idea to
>> introduce subpackages now also? That way people who are getting familiar
>> with the changes required to the ports tools can use their new familiarity
>> whilst it is fresh to support both.
>> 
>> For those that aren’t familiar:
>> - Flavors: build a port multiple times with different options/dependencies
>> to create multiple packages
>> - Subpackages: build a port once and chop the resulting files into multiple
>> subpackages
>> 
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>> --
>> 
>> --
>> From: Benjamin Woods
>> woodsb02 at gmail.com
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