On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:45:44AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> All I would propose is that those subdirectories do not need to be part
> of the base distribution -- that typing 'make modulename' in the parent
> directory (e.g. typing 'make ssh' in ports/security) would first download
> the subdirectory and then do a normal make within that subdirectory.
Something of this general idea exists in the portcheckout port.
I haven't looked at the newest version of the port and I imagine there
are improvements to be made, still, but it does implement the general
idea of demand based downloading of port skeletons.
Expanding it to have a full interface that works from the INDEX file
and produces a set of skeletons guaranteed to compile should not be
too hard.
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