[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Chris]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 14:43:20 -0400 Steve Wills swills at FreeBSD.org said

> We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports.
> 
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Makes sense to me. Thank you. :-)
> 
> * Portsnap doesn't seem to save disk space compared to svn or git, if 
> you count the metadata (stored in /var/db/portsnap by default) and you 
> do an apples-to-apples comparison of svn or git without history and 
> ignoring possible ZFS compression. That is, you use "svn export" or git 
> "clone --depth 1", you see this disk usage:
> 
>     342M    svnexport
>     426M    git
>     477M    portsnap
> 
> * Portsnap also doesn't work offline which git does. With git, you can 
> also easily add the history by running "git pull --unshallow"
> 
> * This migration away from portsnap fits well with the planned migration 
> to git.
> 
Please tell me that this doesn't mean a

[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of subversion

is on the horizon.

--Chris