You guys seem to be attempting to do some cool things here and I actually appreciate flavors since those tools; python, ruby, go, pearl, php, etc are too complicated to maintained without some types of "Flavors"
Android has been dealing with issues like this for a long time and they solved it with Gradle and product flavors: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants.html Instead of reinventing the wheel or knocking your head against brick walls, take a look at the product flavors for some inspiration? subheading Configure Product Flavors: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants.html On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Ben Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thank you very much for flavors. It has been long awaited, and will be a > great step forward for FreeBSD. > > Onwards and upwards: What is the status of subpackages? > > Speaking to bapt at BSDTW, it sounded like flavors was going to be the > difficult change, and subpackages would then be easy. > > Given that we are going through the transition to flavors now, and the > ports tools are getting updated to support it, would it be a good idea to > introduce subpackages now also? That way people who are getting familiar > with the changes required to the ports tools can use their new familiarity > whilst it is fresh to support both. > > For those that aren’t familiar: > - Flavors: build a port multiple times with different options/dependencies > to create multiple packages > - Subpackages: build a port once and chop the resulting files into multiple > subpackages > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/FlavorsAndSubPackages > > Regards, > Ben > -- > > -- > From: Benjamin Woods > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
