svn commit: r476592 - in head/lang: . io io-devel

[Pietro Cerutti]

> On 7 Aug 2018, at 20:06, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 07:42:48PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 7 Aug 2018, at 18:44, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:29:06PM +0000, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 07 2018, 14:24 UTC, Jochen Neumeister <joneum at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> On 8/7/18 2:41 PM, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
>>>>>> Author: gahr
>>>>>> Date: Tue Aug  7 12:41:26 2018
>>>>>> New Revision: 476592
>>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/476592
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Log:
>>>>>> lang/io-devel: new port, development snapshot of lang/io
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Added:
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/Makefile   (contents, props changed)
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/distinfo   (contents, props changed)
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/pkg-descr   (contents, props changed)
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/pkg-message   (contents, props changed)
>>>>>> head/lang/io-devel/pkg-plist   (contents, props changed)
>>>>>> Modified:
>>>>>> head/lang/Makefile
>>>>>> head/lang/io/Makefile
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Heya Pietro,
>>>>> 
>>>>> would not it be better to use a copy of "io" here?
>>>>> So "svn cp lang/io lang/io-devel - and then continue editing?
>>>> 
>>>> Hi - yeah in principle why not, but the two ports are different enough that
>>>> I chose to go the clean way and create this new one from scratch.
>>>> 
>>>> The principal reason for the big difference is that AddOns are handled as
>>>> OPTIONS in the old port, and not handled at all in the new one.
>>> 
>>> The only reason to not use svn cp is if the software is not the same.
>>> Here, it is clearly the same with a different version.  Please re-add
>>> the port correctly.
>> 
>> svn cp + edit would lead to a 100% diff to anything semantically relevant to the software version (i.e., apart maintainer and such).
>> 
>> The -devel version is as clean as can be, quite different in term of generated package and Make machinery, and I really see no value in keeping the tortuous history of the original port.
>> 
>> What gain do you see?
> 
> The reason we bother with doing svn cp in the first place is to denote
> ancestry, to say "this is related".  The amount of diff this would
> generate is really irrelevant.

Ok, in this case I’ll redo it tomorrow.

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Pietro Cerutti