Further to my mail yesterday, wblock@ closed PR 206922 (about whether portmaster should be documented in the handbook). But it refuses to die! After closure, there have been another 12 entries discussing the relative merits of portmaster and synth, during which it eventuated that marino@ wants to remove portmaster and replace it with synth. This PR was just preparing the way.
I'm agnostic about the relative merits, since I don't use either. But the arguments go this way: For portmaster: it's there, it works, and it has few dependencies. Against portmaster: it's not maintained (hasn't been for 9 Whole Months), and it has open PRs (3 of them, For synth: it does everything! Against synth: it's written in Ada. I'm not taking a stance here, but if there's to be a discussion, it should be in the open, not in the entrails of an only marginally related dead PR. I'm not going to spam the list with the messages, but if you're interested in the topic, please take a look and continue the discussion here, not in the PR. One thing of interest is this overview of how synth works: http://downloads.dragonlace.net/misc/synth-img/synth-arch.png Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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