Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-30 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:37:55PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Umesh Singla wrote: >> >> Does the migrate and snapshot actions help you

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-30 Thread Umesh Singla
Hi cal, ijackson Thanks for reviewing my proposal and providing a great feedback. I've replied to most of your comments in the proposal. This surely helps. Please let me know if I have made some false assumption about anything, the timeline/ project plan needs to be modified a great bit or I

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-30 Thread Clemens Lang
Hey everybody, On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:37:55PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Umesh Singla wrote: > > Does the migrate and snapshot actions help you divide the work? The > snapshot action is basically an inventory of what is

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I'm not too familiar with the project, but just some of my thoughts. One of the biggest pains at the moment is the fact that we don't record requested variants anywhere. We do record requested ports, but not the variants. It may easily happen that "port install foo" would install variant A

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-28 Thread Umesh Singla
Hi > I believe at a minimum we should plan on two new actions, port “snapshot” > and “migrate”. A snapshot will the installed ports, their variants and if > the port was “requested”. > > The migrate action will call the snapshot action to create and/or use > snapshots to rebuild ports on the new

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-28 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Umesh Singla wrote: > > Hi Brad, > > I'm UTC +5:30. Around 10:00 to 15:00 (UTC -8) is a good time, I suppose. Ok, good, you make it easy for me :) > I have been going through discussion on the mailing list again and found that > the

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-28 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Jackson Isaac wrote: > > Hi Umesh, > > > First of all, Welcome to The MacPorts Project. We are always happy to > see new developers around. Yes, welcome. > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Umesh Singla wrote: >>

Re: GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-23 Thread Jackson Isaac
Hi Umesh, First of all, Welcome to The MacPorts Project. We are always happy to see new developers around. On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Umesh Singla wrote: > Hello, > > As we discussed on IRC, I've been looking into the project "Add migrate > action to port command"

GSoC'17: Add migrate action to port command Project

2017-03-23 Thread Umesh Singla
Hello, As we discussed on IRC, I've been looking into the project "Add migrate action to port command" and hoping to submit a draft proposal very soon. I'll need your help in putting up a nice proposal for sure. I'm currently trying to acquaint myself with the MacPorts codebase and came across