I have removed port submit in r103400. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:37:05AM +0100, Rainer Müller wrote: > Additionally I want to note that there are features in the current > base that are untested by developers and most probably not used by > anyone. This 'port submit' is one example for that, another one would > be using a remote ports tree over HTTP/FTP and also the alternate work > source path I proposed to be removed last year already [1].
While I actually sometimes use the alternate work source path, I stubled on the mports:// sync method for the ports tree a couple of days ago while looking into an SQLite-based registry, too. NOTE: This is not the daily tarball we also offer to sync the ports tree, but rather an implementation that will only download the remote portindex (into a SQLite 2 database) and then fetch the Portfiles from a tarball on a remote server as needed. Since I'm not aware of a running instance of such a server, removing this code should only affect third parties that are still using this feature for their own private repositories. I doubt there are any, which is why I'd like to propose to remove this without deprecation phase (but I can add a message telling users that this method of syncing is no longer supported). A simple upgrade strategy from this type of syncing would be to set up rsync. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
