Re: Is A-A-P still supported?

Darren Bane wrote:

> I'm curious about the answer the the above question.

Yes, but only bug fixing.

> I don't expect commercial support or all my problems to be fixed for
> me, as I am willing to write code.  I'm just worried that nobody else
> in the world uses A-A-P, given that "aap --install vim" (presumably
> the reference port) fails since SourceForge migrated from CVS to
> Subversion.

Nobody reported that yet.  I have fixed it now (but you need to delete
an old main.aap in ~/.aap/vim to obtain the new one)

> I'd like to use it as a portable "ports" collection.  I use MacPorts,
> but have just got a Linux account and would like to have the same
> method of installing software on both.  Writing portfiles shouldn't be
> a problem (I've done it for MacPorts).  NetBSD's pkgsrc and openpkg
> would probably be my second and third choices for this job,
> respectively.

There hasn't been much work done on the ports stuff in Aap after it was
initially made.  It's just that this lacks someone to work on it.

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