On 2021-06-15, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > I think that his approach is doomed to fail. > > There are a lot of tricky parts to flavors and multipackages and > normalization. If you don't use the actual ports/packages framework code, > you have to figure it out all over again by yourself. > > and there are lots of gremlins. > > The official code is based off sqlports. > > See how many commits there were to that code... especially the tree-walker > part and normalization part... that will give you an idea of everything > that must be gotten precisely right to yield good results. > > (and btw, I initially wrote bogus code. I had a large debugging session > with Robert Nagy until I got the normalization part correct!) > >
ports.su is based off sqlports too, but olllld.