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#### [Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:27:14AM +0100: Nicholas Clark] > In the core distribution there are quite a few "ports" directories. > > Most of them are suffering bad bitrot. Historically, we've let them > stay, I'm guessing on the assumption that their presence is more useful to > someone who might wish to resurrect the platform, and that some brute-force > "change everything" changes do get made in the ports directory. > 1: (say) delete beos/ (because everyone is using Haiku now) > 2: time passes > 3: someone using BeOS appears bearing patches to make BeOS work again The first thing they do, not really knowing git, or being on qnx where they had to clone the source from the repository then copy it over is: 3a: ls qnx* and nothing's there so they give up. I once managed to unbitrot qnx for a machine I know is still running, even if you'd be hard pressed to actually get a new one set up. Hiding this stuff in git, instead of making it easy to see for a dabbler, would perhaps make getting to step > 4: resurrect beos/ *with history still available* a lot harder. > 5: apply patches AlexThread Previous | Thread Next