Re: PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release

[Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I've been watching PKGSRC developments with some eagerness, in particular
>     the increasing numbers of DragonFly developers willing to put significant
>     time into making PKGSRC work for DragonFly, not to mention the large
>     number of people (judging from the related mailing lists) working on it
>     for other platforms.  Despite the problems iterated over many a bikeshed
>     in the last few months I feel that PKGSRC is the best bandwagon for us
>     to jump onto and support.  It is clearly going to be more dragonfly-
>     friendly than FreeBSD ports as time moves on.  Our dfports was never 
>     meant for the long haul and it is clearly no longer capable of crossing
>     the gap, let alone achieve the high level of maintainance that is 
>     necessary to things up to date.  This is proven out by the number
>     of commits to dfports recently (just 2 files in the last 60 days, and
>     18 in the last 90).  dfports has clearly outlived its usefulness.
>
>     I have considered going it alone many times, ever since DragonFly first
>     started, but it is clear to me now that it is just not possible.  We
>     would never be able to keep things up-to-date over the long haul.   Even
>     though PKGSRC isn't perfect, it seems to me that it is organized well
>     enough that we can overcome any difficulties.
>
>     Having DragonFly support the PKGSRC environment will also be beneficial
>     to PKGSRC as it will add another operating system and ensure even better
>     portability.  NetBSD's support of PKGSRC will greatly reduce problems
>     we would otherwise face when we start working on 64 bit support.
>
>     Our next major release will be in December.  I think a 6-month release
>     cycle is working out very well for the DragonFly team.  With sub-versions
>     filling-in the gaps and Preview providing fairly stable jumps for people
>     more interested in the bleeding-edge, the 6-month cycle we have been
>     following really gives us the time we need to add, solidify, and test
>     new features without feeling rushed.
>
>     In the next month or two I intend to beef up my backup facilities
>     and put together a dedicated MP box for PKGSRC building.  Jeremy will
>     continue using leaf for package building (he now has a jailed root to
>     play with) until then.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hmmm... so I guess I had better figure out the features that are missing 
in our version of make to match the netbsd make. :-)

So much code to fix so little time in the day :-/

			Max