[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Steve Wills]

Hi,

On 8/10/20 9:28 AM, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:43:20PM -0400, Steve Wills wrote:
> 
> I'm probably fine with this and I think that all of the (now) supported
> methods have pros and cons.
> To leverage the UX flaws of git and svn(lite) compared to portsnap
> having a wrapper script around the two tools would be very appreciated.
> 
> Something like
> 
> # portsnap-ng --mode git --branch 2020Q2 --destination /ports/2020Q2 fetch extract
>    The package devel/git does not seem to be installed, do you want to install it? (Y/n) _
> 
> With sane defaults, so you can just run portsnap fetch extract like
> you're used to and this
> downloads the latest ports tree to /usr/ports using base svnlite(1).
> 
> While we're here: Can we please have a separate user that is used to
> checkout the tree?
> 
> Lars
> 
> 
> P.S.: Please DO NOT name the wrapper portsnap-ng. :-)
> 

I think something like this will likely in many ways perpetuate many of 
the problems I listed in my original email, particularly with folks 
being on the wrong branch and not properly generating patches.

Steve