[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 11:48:34AM -0400, Greg Veldman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Or alternatively, will there be a git/gitlite or similar utility
> included in base that can be used to bootstrap one's ports tree?

We'd love to have something, but we aren't going to hold up progress
indefinitely waiting for one to be implemented in an acceptable language
with an acceptable license.

-- Brooks
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