Re: Removal of devel/got, replaced by devel/got-portable

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Can we make devel/got be the portable version?

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 6:50 PM Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <vins%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 24/01/28 02:29PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> >   what is upstream's preferred name?
>
> Upstream either refers to it as "the portable version of Game of Trees"
> or as "got-portable" [1]. This is not consistent with the usual habit of
> OpenBSD devs to name the portable release of an utility "foo" as
> "<open>foo". OpenBSD ports have GoT in their repo as devel/got and as a
> consequence all other distributions have named the package simply "got"
> [2]. In my opinion, to avoid confusion, it would be better to conform to
> the choice of other software distributions and name the package
> devel/got.
>
> >   what is the % of users who have one vs the other (of the set that have
> >   both)
>
> I know of a handful of users having devel/got-portable installed on
> their system. Some asked me about the difference between got and
> got-portable, and the only real difference for NetBSD users is that
> devel/got is stuck at version 0.48, while upstream GoT currently reached
> 0.95 (devel/got-portable is up to date).
>
> [1] https://gameoftrees.org/portable.html
> [2] https://repology.org/project/got-game-of-trees/versions
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Benny