svn commit: r476822 - in head/devel: . py-knack

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 11/08/2018 4:28 am, David Naylor wrote:
> On Friday, 10 August 2018 14:04:11 SAST Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 09:43:08AM +0000, David Naylor wrote:
>>> +PORTNAME=	knack
>>> +DISTVERSION=	0.4.2
>>> +USE_GITHUB=	yes
>>> +GH_ACCOUNT=	Microsoft
>>
>> Why use an extract from github? There seems to be a perfectly good
>> released tarball:
> 
> Initially, it was because I came upon the port via GitHub.  However, I stuck 
> with GitHub because it appears (anecdotally) PortScout does not pick up new 
> releases from PyPi [1][2].  
> 
> If you prefer, I can switch this (and py-applicationinsights) over to PyPi?  
> It does, however, make my life a lot easier when portscout works.  I use it to 
> monitor for version updates for most of the ports I maintain.  
> 
> Regards
> 
> David
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/msrest/#files
> [2] https://portscout.freebsd.org/sunpoet@freebsd.org.html
> 

Portscout works for PyPI [1]. If it breaks (or is broken) we'll fix it.

Python@ prefers people use PyPI by default unless there's a compelling
temporary case to use an alternative, such as test files/data files
missing. This way the upstreams entire packaging pipeline is tested, and
it's the same thing people get when they pip install.

[1] http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/401037