[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 7. Aug 2020, at 15:26, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> .....
> I believe that's updated daily and the tars from cgit are generated at least that frequently, if not more.
> 

The real question is: Will we design things in a way that we expect ports tree users to always install git and its dependencies on their system or not (long term)?

For developers it’s a no-brainer (obviously yes), but ports tree users aren’t developers. 

Ideally, from a user perspective, “portsnap fetch/extract/update” would just work as it did before (maybe running “portsnap reset/migrate” once after the change).

Cheers,
Michael