Deprecation of lang/python{15,20}

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sun Apr 25 16:18:55 PDT 2004


On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Tim Middleton wrote:

> On the other hand; if nothing depends on them, what harm can they do
> to leave them?

1. User confusion: what's the "right" version?  It also clutters up
the port list web page.
2. Build resources: bento.FreeBSD.org continuously builds all packages
both as a QA step, and to make them available to users who choose not
to build from ports.
3. Download time: currently, anyone who wants to track the ports
collection needs to download the entire tarball or track the CVS files
(IMHO, this is a bug, but ...)  In any case, the download time and
tarball extraction is an annoyance for some users.

mcl



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