svn commit: r415188 - head/lang/gcc6-devel

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 17 14:51:26 UTC 2016


+--On 16 mai 2016 09:30:27 +0200 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
| On Mon, 16 May 2016, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
|> I find it troublesome for infrastructure changes to happen without 
|> taking basic tools like portlint into account.
|> 
|> After the PORTSDIR removal, the introduction of TIMESTAMP is at 
|> least the second case this year, and my current plan is not to
|> commit changes that would add warnings with the latest version.
|> of portlint.  (Hence the above is the full diff for distinfo.)
| 
| I noticed that portlint has been updated in between my commit
| and the (delayed) note above, which is good.  
| 
| The general point still stands, though.

Well, portlint is a third party static lint tool, even though it is
maintained by a committer.  It is not, by far, perfect, you should not
always act on what it says.

I know it's a pain, we try to put most of the checks we can in the
framework directly, so that we don't rely on outside tools like portlint.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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